At the FDA public hearing today, I began to hear a collective groan. The groan was from the LDT community that provide tests that are actually in clinical use today. You, see, this hearing is much more about LDT than it is about little ‘Ol DTCG.
DTCG in fact was the perp walk that allowed LDT [...]
When I announced our ONS chytrid project, someone joked Every time someone starts an ONS project, an angel gets their wings. We recently decided we had to pull the wings off the angel.
The good news is that the reasons have nothing to do with the ONS philosophy behind this project. Indeed, I was constantly [...]
If you hate the new design of the BBC News website, this is the place to complain.
The new BBC News web page sucks!
A.J. Cann, Science of the Invisible
“Regarding our SNS usage measures, we find no significant differences in GPA by SNS user typology, nor types of social activities performed on these sites. This is understandable as social practices could both support (e.g. offer help with homework) and detract from (e.g. offer alternatives to focusing on school obligations) academic work, and thus [...]
I know I said I would stop writing about 23andSerge. I will, but I am still going to write about what I think may go down next week in D.C. Land.
As you may know, I am a big supporter of classifying DTCG tests in certain ways
1. If the company has purported some sort of health [...]
Many educators advocate, promote and encourage the dreams of agency, control, ownership and choice amongst students whilst educational institutions take the responsibility for provision, equity, access, participation and standards. The institutions traditionally procure, provide and control the technology for learning but now students are acquiring their own personal technologies for learning and institutions are challenged [...]
I keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Why do we have to do statistics? I’m a Biochemist and I don’t need to know all this stuff. We didn’t do it that way at A level, we had to use a calculator. [...]
The abstract presented for a paper by Yang, Felsen and Poppas “Nerve Sparing Ventral Clitoroplasty: Analysis of Clitoral Sensitivity and Viability” in the October 2007 Journal of Urology sounds rather cut and dry:
“Purpose Enlargement of the clitoris is often a prominent manifestation of virilizing congenital adrenal hyperplasia and other disorders of sexual development. Controversy persists [...]
Richard Badge and I had a useful chat on Friday about the future of statistics teaching in the School. After discussing all the options, we came back to the conclusion that there is no sensible alternative but to roll out use of R as our statistics package of choice. This will not be [...]
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