The 5% Solution: How do we make decisions in science?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 81-84

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959532435     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20304     Document Type: Note

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