Why Reporting On Scientific Research May Warp Findings
The pressure to publish original research can mean scientists are
neglecting to verify the work of others. In its current issue, the Journal
of Social Science is trying a different approach.
I absolutely agree with that and it is something I've heard scientist
friends talk about as well. It used to be that replication of results was a
standard project assigned to early graduate students. Figuring out how
another team performed an experiment by analyzing their publication helped
Very old news. Look up the File Drawer Problem or Publication Bias
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/mks/statmistakes/filedrawer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:56 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey chumph...@gmail.com wrote:
Why Reporting On Scientific Research
