Interview Wednesday: Leart Shaka, crusader for good evidence about vaccination.

For today's Interview Wednesday, we talk with Leart Shaka, Editor of Vaccine Times. I first wrote about him last year after discovering his blog. As a self-described layman, he's created an impressive repository of information about vaccines - and is an example of what one passionately curious person can do. (His journey also illustrates the pathetic state of reliable, user-friendly evidence:

Bad evidence for a good cause.

Evidence Soup - Bad evidence for a good cause.Evidence Soup« Evidence-based basketball. |Main| Interview Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Oyer, evaluator of evidence. »Tuesday, 29 March 2011Bad evidence for a good cause.Remember awhile back when craigslist promised to cut back on its 'adult' classifieds, in response to claims that ads for child prostitution (due to sex trafficking) were rampant on the

Evidence-based basketball.

Evidence Soup - Evidence-based basketball.Evidence Soup« Evidence-based school design. |Main| Bad evidence for a good cause. »Friday, 25 March 2011Evidence-based basketball.Happy Fun-with-Evidence Friday. I'm a bit of a baseball statistics geek (worked for awhile at STATS). I don't know as much about basketball, though I do enjoy the March Madness. I ran across a great Wall Street Journal article

Learning to hug it out: The competing logics of the physician-patient relationship and business-like, evidence-based health care.

Evidence Soup - Learning to hug it out: The competing logics of the physician-patient relationship and business-like, evidence-based health care.Evidence Soup« A must-read: Yudkowsky's gentle, brilliant explanation of Bayesian reasoning and evidence. And why we overestimate breast cancer occurrence 85% of the time. |Main| Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss"

In the Shark Tank: An entrepreneur pitches nostril screens with (a little) evidence.

Evidence Soup - In the Shark Tank: An entrepreneur pitches nostril screens with (a little) evidence.Evidence Soup« Interview Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Oyer, evaluator of evidence. |Main| Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your IT guy. »Friday, 01 April 2011In the Shark Tank: An entrepreneur pitches nostril screens with (a little) evidence. I love the show

Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence.

Evidence Soup - Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence.Evidence Soup« Learning to hug it out: The competing logics of the physician-patient relationship and business-like, evidence-based health care. |Main| Evidence-based school design. »Friday, 18 March 2011Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss"

Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence.

Evidence Soup - Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence.Evidence Soup« Learning to hug it out: The competing logics of the physician-patient relationship and business-like, evidence-based health care. |Main| Evidence-based school design. »Friday, 18 March 2011Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss"

Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your IT guy.

Evidence Soup - Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your IT guy.Evidence Soup« In the Shark Tank: An entrepreneur pitches nostril screens with (a little) evidence. |Main| Interview Wednesday: Leart Shaka, crusader for good evidence about vaccination. »Tuesday, 19 April 2011Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your

Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your IT guy.

Evidence Soup - Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your IT guy.Evidence Soup« In the Shark Tank: An entrepreneur pitches nostril screens with (a little) evidence. |Main| Interview Wednesday: Leart Shaka, crusader for good evidence about vaccination. »Tuesday, 19 April 2011Evidence shows random passwords not necessarily better than usable ones. Tell your

Evidence-based school design.

Evidence Soup - Evidence-based school design.Evidence Soup« Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence. |Main| Evidence-based basketball. »Saturday, 19 March 2011Evidence-based school design.This is almost enough to make me want to be a kid again: Evidence-Based Design of Elementary and Secondary Schools by Peter Lippmann (here's the

Evidence-based school design.

Evidence Soup - Evidence-based school design.Evidence Soup« Evidence-based smackdown! Denning says Sutton's "good boss" characterization doesn't follow the evidence. |Main| Evidence-based basketball. »Saturday, 19 March 2011Evidence-based school design.This is almost enough to make me want to be a kid again: Evidence-Based Design of Elementary and Secondary Schools by Peter Lippmann (here's the

Interview Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Oyer, evaluator of evidence.

For today's Interview Wednesday, we talk with Elizabeth Oyer, Director of Research at Eval Solutions in Carmel, Indiana, USA. You can read Elizabeth's blog here. Her Twitter account is @elizabethoyer.#1. What got you interested in evaluation and evidence? I believe my work in evaluation has been my destiny for a while. I began my undergraduate studies in Psychology with a minor in French (

Interview Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Oyer, evaluator of evidence.

For today's Interview Wednesday, we talk with Elizabeth Oyer, Director of Research at Eval Solutions in Carmel, Indiana, USA. You can read Elizabeth's blog here. Her Twitter account is @elizabethoyer.#1. What got you interested in evaluation and evidence? I believe my work in evaluation has been my destiny for a while. I began my undergraduate studies in Psychology with a minor in French (