Randomness is an awkward concept. Most people have some intuitive idea of what it is supposed to mean, but it’s too intangible for us to feel comfortable with. Worse, randomness is often conflated with arbitrariness, a distasteful and unsettling quality which we usually strive to avoid. Scientists a...
In the last few days, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that they will shortly require every article published in one of their journals to be accompanied by a “data availability statement”, stating how the raw data underlying the manuscript can be accessed by readers. All of the d...