jueves, 18 de junio de 2020

How STRANGE are your study animals?

How STRANGE are your study animals?



“It is high time for scientists who work on animal behaviour to identify, and mitigate, potential sampling biases,” write animal-behaviour researchers Michael Webster and Christian Rutz. “Simply gathering more data is not a solution, because researchers should always strive to minimize the number of experimental animals used.” Instead, they propose a framework with a fitting acronym — STRANGE — that researchers can use to interrogate how unusual their study subjects are.s. (Nature | 10 min read)

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