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This guide is for students enrolled in Nursing courses at Oxford College.

A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science

Infographic showing 12 elements of faulty scientific claims: Sensationalized headlines, Misinterpreted results, Conflicts of interest, Correlation & causation, Unsupported conclusions, Problems with sample size, Unrepresentative samples used, No control group used, No blind testing used, Selective reporting of data, Unreplicable results, Non-peer reviewed material. Shared under Creative Commons by Compound Interest 2015

Twenty Tips for Evaluating Scientific Claims

Twenty Tips for Evaluating Scientific Claims

Sutherland, W., Spiegelhalter, D. & Burgman, M. Policy: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims. Nature 503, 335–337 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/503335a