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	<title>Curving Normality</title>
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	<description>&#34;The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality&#34;</description>
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		<title>Super Crunchers &#8211; Ayres (2007) &#8211; 1/2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Triumph of Numbers, I read and wrote about the power of using numbers, and how the observation of empirical regularities led to the basic knowledge on how to use such numbers. Already in the triumph of numbers, it was indicated how valuable (numerical) data were regarded to be, for instance by the recollection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R Sessions 33: Select (nested) observations with equal number of occurences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently, I was contacted with an question about R code. A befriended researcher was working with nested data, which was unbalanced. He was working with data in a &#8216;long&#8217; format: all observations nested within the same group had the same identification number. But, the number of observations in each of the groups differed (hence: unbalanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistical Tools &#8211; Te Grotenhuis and Van der Weegen (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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How does one teach statistics? Is it more important to start with mathematical thoroughness, or to help students to gain a conceptual understanding first? Few give a comprehensive introduction to statistics for those without the otherwise indispensable mathematical background. Manfred te Grotenhuis and Theo van der Weegen recently published an introductory book on statistics, explaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Triumph of Numbers &#8211; Cohen (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new job involves working with numbers. A lot. So, I started reading about using numbers, and I very much enjoyed &#8216;The Triumph of Numbers&#8217; by I.B. Cohen (2005). This book gives an historical account not only of how numbers were used in different times, but also of &#8216;how counting shaped modern life&#8217;. 
The books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, I posted the preface of my Master&#8217;s Thesis on my blog. In an earlier draft, I wrote some thoughts about what I learned during my education in Sociology. In the end, I decided to delete that passage, but I saved it for publication on my blog.
So, below some thougths on what I learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished Thesis, New Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just very recently I finished writing my Master&#8217;s Thesis, it was graded last week, and today I&#8217;m starting my new job as a PhD Candidate. I will be working at the department of Social Risk and Safety Studies, at the University of Twente. I will be working on a project regarding cross-country differences in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper interview: Rebecca Gomperts (Women on Waves)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, the magazine of NRC Handelsblad (a major Dutch newspaper), featured an interview with Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Women on Waves. Women on Waves is &#8220;a Dutch non-profit organization concerned with women&#8217;s human rights. Its mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world.&#8221; One of their activities that received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New developments on abortion in the liberal Netherlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Netherlands are known for their liberal stance on induced abortion, currently the issue is debated again. Two only slightly related subjects now gain considerably attention in popular media and public opinion. 
The first is a slight change in policy regarding the use of the &#8216;abortion pill&#8217; in very early pregnancies (before 16 days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elective fertility cryo-preservation instigates debate in the Netherlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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New technology has that unique property of creating fascinating moral debates, which is especially so when it relates to new technology regarding life, death, or in this case: fertility. For a few years, technology has been available for the cryo-preservation of oocytes or ovarian tissue, which is used to help save the fertility of women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influence.ME: Simple Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the introduction of our new package for influential data influence.ME, I&#8217;m currently writing a manual for the package. This manual will address topics for both the experienced, and the inexperienced users. 
I will also present much of the content of this manual on my blog. Of course, feel free to comment on it, and [...]]]></description>
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