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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

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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.
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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/
#This is what #patriarchy looks like in the US right now. 2/
And #patriarchy looks like #this. Yesterday, .@OrrinHatch refused to listen to women and their concerns. 3/
washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
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