mama Biostatistics is perhaps not the most approachable thing to people outside the biostatistics sphere, and as a discipline of Public Health Sciences it is sometimes frowned a little bit upon. Maybe because it is, even to many public health professionals, quite boring. It’s all about numbers, computer programmes, likelihoods, tests and probabilities and communicating it is difficult to do in a sexy or funny manner. Or is it…
A wonderful friend and fellow public-health’er who for better or worse have biostatistics as an integrated part of her work sent me this link to a Biostatistics Tumblerblog. She wrote:
“This is perhaps also a way of communicating public health sciences :)”
http://biostatisticsryangosling.tumblr.com/
The website is the product of one PhD student’s free time and is meant purely as entertainment. It is hardly ‘Science Communication to the Public’, but perhaps one could argue that it is a way of communicating science to the insiders of biostatistics.
It uses the (unsexy) language of biostatistics and combines it with the (sexy) Ryan Gosling – thus it puts together two opposites. It is this combination that appeals to at least my friend and probably also to many of the other followers of the blog.
Go to the blog and check out this simple way of communicating biostatistics. Below a few appetizers picked out by a fan of the blog:....
“
Hey girl, since I met you I’ve violated my independence assumption”
“Hey girl, before I meet you I wasn’t complete and sufficient”
“Hey girl, if I was a non-adherent participant, would you still include me in your analytic sample?”
“Hey girl, sometimes I feel like a nul-hypothesis. I will never be accepted”
If anybody knows of similar blogs, combining public health disciplines with short texts and photos do not hold back – share it!
