6/19/19
6/18/19
Biostatistics Professor Asking PhD Student Defending Dissertation
“If you were to earn $1 million tomorrow in grant money, which project in your dissertation would you start working on?”
6/18/19
Biostatistics Professor
“Never try to publish a standard error of zero”
5/21/19
Dorie Clark in Reinventing You
“Most blogs are read by your mom, your best friend, and two people in Pakistan.”
4/14/19
Contract research organization consultant
“They’re so focused on dollars, they lose focus of quality.”
4/14/19
Contract research organization consultant
4/10/19
Publication bias in clinical research
4/3/19
Alzheimer’s Disease Clinician, Researcher, and Professor
“What do you conclude doing an observational trial in Southern Florida?”
“You’re born Cuban, and you die Jewish.”
1/23/19
Alzheimer’s Disease Researcher and Professor
10/29/18
“There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.”
9/18/18
Epidemiology Professor
“You get closer and closer to the truth, but you never actually get there.”
8/21/18
Structural Equation Modeling Professor
“There are 3 types of biostatisticians: those who can count, and those who cannot.”
8/13/18
“Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way.”
8/8/17
The BMJ, Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
“Epidemiology thrives on heterogeneity. If everyone smoked 20 cigarettes a day the link with lung cancer would have been undetectable. Lung cancer might then have been considered a “genetic disease”, because its distribution depended on susceptibility to the effects of smoking.”
7/30/18
Joshua Schimel, Writing Science
“Although statistics are essential for establishing the credibility of your conclusions, remember that the story is not in the statistics—it is in the data themselves.”
7/25/18
FDA Regulation of Biopharmaceuticals Lecturer
“Drugs aren’t necessarily safe, but safe enough for their indication.”
7/23/18
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
7/13/18
Tenured biostatistics professor
“Do you know your data well enough to determine whether that analysis is appropriate?”
7/6/18
Joshua Schimel, Writing Science, p. 7
“An artist never completes a work – they merely let it go”
6/29/18
It’s easier to be conservative when you have something to conserve.
6/1/18
George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
“The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one’s mind works – also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”
