A new KAUST-developed workflow helps researchers efficiently test and validate the assumptions underlying complex statistical models to ensure more reliable results.

Motion capture technology has applications in a wide range of fields, including entertainment, medicine, and sports, to name a few. But what if the measurements these systems were based on were rooted ...

Source: Flickr: Cracking Under Stress by Bernard Goldbach, CC by 2.0 In this series of posts, I will be discussing false assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature ...

Although American politics today are defined by sharp, bitter disagreement, a bipartisan US grand strategy for great-power competition has emerged. This report makes explicit 17 critical assumptions ...

Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mycologists tend to base their evolutionary assumptions about all fungi on the higher fungi such as mushrooms, bread molds and yeasts. But that is a mistake, according to a ...

Objective. We test several underlying assumptions regarding the impact of a concealed-handgun policy on violent crime rates. We posit that significant differences exist within geographic areas, and ...

This is the second in a series of posts that discusses false and unacknowledged assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature and which lead to false or misleading ...