Clinical Appraisal

In today’s episode, Ian covers a study published on in a recent CNN article describing a supposedly increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by 90%, due apparently to very hot tea intake. Do you buy these results? Ian is skeptical.

In this episode, Ian discusses the Dunning-Kruger effect and how research has exposed him to the notion that expertise is quite rare.

In this episode, Ian describes his foray into the nursing literature from years past and describes what he’s seeing so far in his literature search and review.

In this episode, Ian describes what a meta-analysis if effect sizes is and how it is different from a systematic literature review, and then examines the merits and faults of the meta-analysis in terms of our ability to generalize from the results.

In this episode, Ian briefly covers the basic interpretive framework he uses to understand type I versus type II error rates, and what it actually means for our interpretations of published research.