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Get to know your measurement scales

You may come across a variety of methods to assess a variable during a study. This article will describe the four primary kinds of measurement scales and provide some examples of them. Nominal scale A nominal scale assigns a name or label to a category. These variables are categories that tell what something is, like […]

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PubTrawlr Needs Writers!

PubTrawlr is dedicated to improving our understanding of scientific knowledge. We want science to be accessible. We want research to get into practice and to be able to learn from innovations happening in the field. What are we looking for? We are specifically seeking 400–500-word blogs post to help promote ongoing discussion and reflection. We […]

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PubTrawlr’s 2021 Milestones and Looking Ahead!

It’s the last day of 2021, so we’d want to look back at our achievements for the previous year and preview what you’ll see in 2022 at PubTrawler. Although the website was live in beta testing in late 2020, PubTrawlr was officially incorporated in early January 2021. Since then, we have had a number of […]

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Commentary

Scraping the news for insights

Health equity is a major topic and research focus over the past few years. And with good reason! For those of us who want wellbeing to improve in our communities, we can’t have that happen unless we working for improved outcomes for all. For that reason, health equity is more than an academic topic. Working […]

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Getting Acquainted with ArXiv

The ArXiv (pronounced “archive”) is a digital library that archives papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines. It was established because not many journals would accept emails for submissions, so scientists wanted to have their work published as soon as possible. Preprints are one method of achieving this goal. A preprint is […]

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Using AI to sort through evaluation research

Let’s talk evaluation. I haven’t done a summary of evaluation in a long time, and since we’re dialing up a really big project with our friends at RISE, it’s as good a time as any to see what’s been going on in the evaluation field. I would hypothesize that the ratio of evaluation practitioners to […]

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Monthly recap

Another 31 Days of Health Equity!

It’s been a while since I wrote one of these summaries. Chalk it up to new projects, new opportunities, and a lack of time to simply sit down and do the analyses. If you’ve enjoyed these and found them helpful, please let us know in the comment below or reach out to us at jon@pubtrawlr.com […]

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Commentary

It’s been a while!

Is busyness ever a valid excuse? Probably not. We’ve been working on a ton of underlying improvements that we plan to showcase when we launch our next update. We plan on having improved topic modeling and, for 101 Days of Science Subscribers, the ability to synthesize what’s been written in the mainstream media. This helps […]

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Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the passing of Aaron Beck

The influential and transcendental psychologist Aaron Beck died on October 31st at the age of 100. His work and research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have influenced and improved, without exaggeration, millions and millions of lives. I started out in substance abuse treatment about 15 years ago. This was in Philly, and Beck was based at […]

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