People can tell you if you messed up prior to becoming associated with a widely cited, but ultimately wrong analysis. The current example is the much-discussed case of the Reinhart/Rogoff economics paper about the alleged dangers of high public debt to economic growth. Kevin Drum comments:
More important, then, may be the light this shines on the fact that an awful lot of research is based on datasets that are kept private.
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This was an issue that was front and center during Climategate. Climate skeptics were unhappy that the raw data collected by various research groups (mostly using public money) wasn’t made available to them, and they made the reasonable point that if your analysis is correct, you shouldn’t be afraid to share the underlying data
After a lot of searching in the web I saw your blog and I was wondering if you perhaps help with a small inquire.
I have a 10 year old girl that fell completely in love with paleoanthropology after we saw couple of years ago a documentary on Ardi with Owen Lovejoy, Tim White and others. She even made me email a thank note and a question to professor White, which he kindly answered. After 2 years, to my astonishment, this phase has not faded.
I was wondering if you could perhaps recommend a magazine that she could read and that would be as age appropriate as possible, considering the complexity of the subject. I have gotten some books but I feel a magazine with the latest development would be something she would really enjoy.
There aren’t any specific paleoanthropology magazines that would be accessible to a pre-teen, I am afraid. I can certainly trace my interest in organismal biology, evolution and anatomy to being a Zoobooks addict as a kid. Kate Wong covers paleoanthropology quite well for Scientific American these days. Discover and Natural History also have good pieces now and then.