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The Pompano lab group meeting topic today: #poweranalysis. PhD student Alex opened with prompt: "How do you choose how many samples to run when testing the effect of X on Y?"
Initial answers:
* Always n = 5
* Whatever # is convenient
* Lots of blank faces
Resources below.
Initial answers:
* Always n = 5
* Whatever # is convenient
* Lots of blank faces
Resources below.
For some reason we don't teach power analysis in Chemistry or most Biology programs (undergrad), nor in grad Chem or most grad Bio. Whereas in social sciences, this is intro-level stuff. #needtoupdatethecurriculum
Yet, we need to learn it to ensure that we can accurately detect small changes between groups in our experiments. In fact, @NIH mandates power analysis to justify proposed animal or human experiments.
People ask what #patriarchy is. Think “Jim Crow” and apply it to women—all women. It’s a web of systems, structures, practices and believes that enforce gender hierarchy and silence women. 1/
And #patriarchy looks like #this. Yesterday, .@OrrinHatch refused to listen to women and their concerns. 3/
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