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Statistically funny: enjoy some cartoons
Statistically funny is a blog by Hilda Bastian containing her own cartoons illustrating important concepts in research and evidence-based health care. “The comedic possibilities of clinical...
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The Risky Business of Medical Reporting
This cartoon byRoxanne Palmer on the International Business Times website nicely illustrates how relative measures of efficacy can be used to misrepresent how much benefit a treatment actually gives....
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Big data and finding the evidence
“Big data” is a term used to describe the use of large-scale data processing technologies to analyse lots of different data sets in order to generate insights into performance, behvaviour and trends....
View ArticleWhen something is statistically significant, it doesn’t always mean that it’s...
Statistically funny is a blog by Hilda Bastian in which she uses her own cartoons to illustrate key issues in fair tests of treatments. In this cartoon, entitled “Nervously approaching significance“,...
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Catch 22: Clinical Trial Edition
This cartoon by Hilda Bastian illustrates the harm caused by excluding pregnant women, children and other vulnerable groups from clinical trials. This practice, sometimes driven by over-protective...
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MMR: The Facts In The Case Of Dr Andrew Wakefield
This is a wonderful 15-page cartoon by Darryl Cunningham explaining the events that led to the disastrous loss of confidence in the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) combined vaccine. It focuses on the fraud...
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Correlation is not causation. Let’s say that again: correlation is not...
Sadly, no matter how many times you say it, you will still see headlines like: Viewing porn shrinks the brain Sleeping with the light on increases the risk of obesity Sense of purpose ‘adds years to...
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Composite Outcomes
Deciphering trial outcomes can be a tricky business. As if many measures aren’t hard enough to make sense of on their own, they are often combined in a complex maneuver called a composite endpoint...
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House Calls Please
Cartoons are available for use, with credit to Hilda Bastian. The post House Calls Please appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
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Catch 22 – clinical trials edition
It’s the Catch-22 of clinical trials: to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs….we don’t test drugs adequately for them. In the last few decades, we’ve been more...
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Cecil and those pellets again…
I can neither confirm nor deny that Cecil is now a participant in one of the there-is-no-limit-to-the-human-lifespan resveratrol studies at Harvard’s “strictly guarded mouse lab”! If he is, I’m sure...
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Effectiveness Delusions
To inoculate yourself against “significant” effects that might not improve health, have a look at papers by Ioannidis and Gotzsche. Want to know more about the risks of relying only on biomarkers?...
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Eureka!
A take on a classic saying – can’t face the data mining boom without it! You can read about the dangers of data analyses that weren’t pre-planned and multiple testing (data dredging) here. Another...
View ArticleAnnals Graphic Medicine: How screening is portrayed in the media
Earlier is not always better. Follow the link to a cartoon series. http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2518279 The post Annals Graphic Medicine: How screening is portrayed in the media appeared...
View ArticleWatson en busca de la evidencia
Cómic acerca de conflictos de intereses y búsqueda de información. The post Watson en busca de la evidencia appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
View ArticleInformed Health Choices Primary School Resources
These resources are designed for late primary school children (10 to 12 year olds). We are currently evaluating the effects of these resources in Uganda. We have randomly allocated half of 120 schools...
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