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> Why isn’t anyone holding universities accountable for their press releases? It's about time. Maybe in the future, universities will adopt ethics guidelines t
by lutusp 11y ago
> Why isn’t anyone holding universities accountable for their press releases?
It's about time. Maybe in the future, universities will adopt ethics guidelines that will oblige them to say, "Here's another social science study of dubious provenance, one that, based on a now-famous survey of similar past studies [1], is more likely to be false than true."
[1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...