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Here's a nice, approachable treatment of some of the ways psych studies can go wrong; it also offers concrete suggestions for fixes: Joseph P. Simmons, Leif
by chockablock 11y ago
Here's a nice, approachable treatment of some of the ways psych studies can go wrong; it also offers concrete suggestions for fixes:
Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn
"False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant"
Psychological Science November 2011 22: 1359-1366,
Free full-text (no paywall): http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1359 http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1359
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