Professional baseball umpires are not supposed to make errors, yet they sometimes do. That happens more often on days when the air is badly polluted, suggests a new scientific study. If umpires make more bad decisions on bad-air days, then maybe so does anyone who has to make rapid judgment calls. As the saying goes: […]
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Alrighty: Wrong upon wrong
Mistakes in measuring error? Do such things get acknowledged? The Retraction Watch blog reports: A paper published in Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science has been retracted for statistical and typographical mistakes. Here’s the notice for “Comparing Measurement Error Between Two Different Methods of Measurement of Various Magnitudes”: Due to errors, the statistical analyses of the manuscript […]