by Katherine Boyd | Jan 17, 2016 | Data-driven decisions, Survey data, Transportation data
For those who don’t know, TRB is the international mega-conference for transportation professionals. It’s held in Washington DC every January. This is the 95th year, making TRB older than the Winter Olympics, movies with sound, and Charles Lindbergh’s flight across...
by Katherine Boyd | May 31, 2015 | Data gone wrong, Survey data
Jesse Singal at New York Magazine’s The Science of Us dives deep on the recent faked data scandal: now-debunked research showing that a conversation with a gay political canvasser could change a person’s opinion on same-sex marriage. The study was so...
by Katherine Boyd | May 21, 2015 | Data gone wrong, Survey data
Columbia University political science professor Donald Green has retracted the December 2014 Science article “When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support of gay marriage,” after allegations that his co-author, UCLA graduate student...