2023-08-25 Fri

How to read a scientific paper

Rick Gilmore

Overview

Announcements

Figure 1: Optional anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/DEvDGc3boXQuMkg7A

Results so far

Today

• Brief discussion of Survey 01

How to read a scientific paper

• Read
  • (Carey, Steiner, & Petri, 2020)
  • (Ruben, 2016) (for fun)
• Assignment
  • Exercise 01: Reading a scientific paper

Survey 01

Aims

• Replicate data from (Krumrei-Mancuso & Rouse, 2016; Nadelson et al., 2014; Plohl & Musil, 2023)
• Create open, transparent, reproducible work flow for cleaning and visualizing these data
• Provoke thought about the relationship between the questions and the constructs
• Learn more about your views on these topics
• Demonstrate a possible final project topic
• Survey 01 link

Survey 01 results

How to read a scientific paper

Gilmore’s “inside-out” suggestions

• Abstract
• Then methods
• Then results, especially figures
• Highlight/look up jargon
• Conclusion, then introduction

Next time

How science works (or should)

• Read
  • (Ritchie, 2020), Chapter 1. Alternate link to PDF on Canvas.
  • (Nosek & Bar-Anan, 2012). Alternate link to PDF on Canvas
• Class notes

Resources

References

Carey, M. A., Steiner, K. L., & Petri, W. A., Jr. (2020). Ten simple rules for reading a scientific paper. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(7), e1008032. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008032

Krumrei-Mancuso, E. J., & Rouse, S. V. (2016). The development and validation of the comprehensive intellectual humility scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 98(2), 209–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2015.1068174

Nadelson, L., Jorcyk, C., Yang, D., Jarratt Smith, M., Matson, S., Cornell, K., & Husting, V. (2014). I just don’t trust them: The development and validation of an assessment instrument to measure trust in science and scientists. School Science and Mathematics, 114(2), 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.12051

Nosek, B. A., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2012). Scientific utopia i: Opening scientific communication. Psychological Inquiry, 23(3), 217–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2012.692215

Plohl, N., & Musil, B. (2023). Assessing the incremental value of intellectual humility and cognitive reflection in predicting trust in science. Personality and Individual Differences, 214, 112340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112340

Ritchie, S. (2020). Science fictions: Exposing fraud, bias, negligence and hype in science (1st ed.). Penguin Random House. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictions/dp/1847925669

Ruben, A. (2016). How to read a scientific paper. Science| AAAS [Internet], 20. Retrieved from https://www.science.org/content/article/how-read-scientific-paper-rev2