To: Brumar89 who wrote (76205 ) 4/17/2017 1:15:00 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articlesAnthony Watts / 1 day ago April 15, 2017 Daniel Lakens , an experimental psychologist at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. The 20% Statistician A blog on statistics, methods, and open science. Understanding 20% of statistics will improve 80% of your inferences. Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles a famous commercial in 1989 that had the slogan ‘We from WC-EEND advise… WC-EEND’. It is now a common saying in The Netherlands whenever someone gives an opinion that is clearly aligned with their self-interest. In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles. Below, I present 5 arguments in favor of this hypothesis.Open Data, Code, and Materials Open Peer Review no Eminence Filter Better Error Correction Open Access (and might be read more) entire article for the thinking behind the reasons, my comments are [in brackets] above. Item 5 is particularly important. It has been said to me by a few people that WUWT has changed the world. I think it has, but I view it as a collective effort with other climate blogs. If climate blogs didn’t exist, there would be no exposure of Climategate, no exposure of the [IPCC’s] horrid messes in AR4 and AR5, among other issues.https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/15/discussion-five-reasons-blog-posts-are-of-higher-scientific-quality-than-journal-articles/
