Geoff Norman

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@Jill_Halladay It was a pleasure meeting you. I'm sure you'll have an outstanding career in health research.

[Jillian Halladay (she/her) @DrJillHalladay]

It was great learning from @realgeoffnorman today. He stimulated a deep discussion about how we define “good science”, the role of theory, and the nature and value of replication (including how Fisherian statistics impact replication).

Thank you for a great seminar.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@meredithyoung1 @Midwest_MedPeds @LaraVarpio Credit where due. I was sort of quoting a statistician, Fred Mosteller

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@DrKreatsoulas great to hear from you. It's been too long.

As it turns out "notgeoffnorman" isn't me. It's a long story. That's the problem with Twitter. I'll email you to fill you the twitter story and other events. However I don't have an up to date email. Please email me. Geoff

[Dr Catherine Kreatsoulas @DrKreatsoulas]

@notgeoffnorman Your twitter handle should be @RealGeoffNorman omg!! Stop it!! It already is!! You are a GOD!!! Only better!!! Omg i miss you

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@DrSueDojeiji @drjfrank @mahanmeded @SaleemRazack @IHSE_McGill Is someone going to break the news to all those faculty who are teaching courses in communication skills that it can't be taught? What about Papadakis and professionalism? That was assessment.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@SaleemRazack @drjfrank @IHSE_McGill Well, exactly what societal outcomes did Einstein, Bohr, Higgs, Schroediger, Dirac, Crick, etc. etc. Nobel prize all, meet?

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@mededdoc That's it. It was in a soft over book. Searched high and low but could not locate it.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@M_Baghdady "The power of accurate observation is often viewed as cynicism by those who lack it" G.B. Shaw

I prefer to be viewed as iconoclastic rather than sarcastic

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@JohnAvlon

I like your comment on Trump's illiteracy. But last line should have quotes.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." G. Santayana

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@TChanMD @mededdoc @LSchuwirth @ShannonOMac @ArtKellermannMD @LaurenMaggio @erikwdriessen @drjfrank @sherbino @LaraVarpio @aliki_thomas @meredithyoung1 @MDaware @templeratcliffe @AmolUtrankar @choo_ek @boedudley @harvardmacy @kristinadzara I completely agree. Research is a detective story. Unless you can do stats, you can't really explore Ma Nature. But I suspect the system won't change. People like you are an exception in this and many ways.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@TChanMD @mededdoc @LSchuwirth @ShannonOMac @ArtKellermannMD @LaurenMaggio @erikwdriessen @drjfrank @sherbino @LaraVarpio @aliki_thomas @meredithyoung1 @MDaware @templeratcliffe @AmolUtrankar @choo_ek @boedudley @harvardmacy @kristinadzara In the Mac https://t.co/TbaRpf6xuJ (Health research methodology) it is very common for health professional students to get someone else to do stats. At one level it's understandable. They'll do it later. But they don't know what they're missing -- literally

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@LaraVarpio @TChanMD @mededdoc @LSchuwirth @ShannonOMac @ArtKellermannMD @LaurenMaggio @erikwdriessen @drjfrank @sherbino @aliki_thomas @meredithyoung1 @MDaware @templeratcliffe @AmolUtrankar @choo_ek @boedudley @harvardmacy @kristinadzara @Brent_Thoma I often talk folks out of including me as an author. At this stage, I don't want to be seem as a jack. of all trades -- a minor actor on a bunch of different papers. Selfish?

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@mededdoc @TChanMD @LSchuwirth @ShannonOMac @ArtKellermannMD @LaurenMaggio @erikwdriessen @drjfrank @sherbino @LaraVarpio @aliki_thomas @meredithyoung1 @MDaware @templeratcliffe @AmolUtrankar @choo_ek @boedudley @harvardmacy @kristinadzara AHSE was the first Med Educ journal to not have a word limit -- 23 years ago. Followed the lead of psych journals. In the fine print, Medical Education and Acad Med have relaxed their requirements as well.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@rakeshspatel See also Gigerenzer, Fiedler Olsson in "Ecological rationality: Intelligence in the world" OUP. For another critique of Kahneman's conclusions.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@jvrbntz WRT to your tweet about my citing Bargh. I'm well aware of the Bargh / Kahneman debate. But the pot calls the kettle black. See LL Lopes The Rhetoric of Irrationality, Theory and Psychology 1, 62-81, 1991. And for why non replication (not mine) see me in AHSE 22:5.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@rakeshspatel Also see my editorial "Generalization and the qualitative quantitative debate in AHSE 22:5 Dec 2017 for an interesting exploration of why things do/don't replicate. (Not my idea)

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@rakeshspatel I am aware of the Kahneman / Bargh debate re replication. However the pot calls the kettle black See Lopes LL The rhetoric of Irrationality. Theory and Psychology 1, 61-82, 1991. I'll send if you can't find it. (and Hansen DID replicate Bargh)

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@javeedsukhera @ChrisWatling3 @pim_teu @LingardLorelei Crikey! What's an "Altimetric score". Guess I should know this stuff, but I don't.

[Geoff Norman @RealGeoffNorman]

@CNNOpinion I have grown accustomed to spelling and grammar errors in CNN coverage, and understand the pressure to get things out on time . But a headline that reads "Part Deux" , not "Pas de Deux". Really! Votre francais est terrible!