How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research
Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.
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Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.
Over a decade has passed since scientists realized many of their studies were failing to replicate. How well have their attempts to fix the problem actually worked?
/PRNewswire/ -- JMIR Publications recently published "Establishing Institutional Scores With the Rigor and Transparency Index: Large-scale Analysis of...
JMIR Publications recently published "Establishing Institutional Scores With the Rigor and Transparency Index: Large-scale Analysis of Scientific Reporting Quality" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which reported that improving rigor and transparency measures should lead to improvements in reproducibility across the scientific literature, but assessing measures of transparency tends to be very difficult if performed manually by reviewers.
Widespread failure to reproduce results still plagues scientific research.