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Bot crawls thousands of studies; finds concerning number of simple stats errors
- kafkaesq 10y agoSo just like we have spell checkers, someone needs to write a plugin (for pdflatex, etc) that sanity checks your papers as you're writing them.
- Houshalter 10y agoIf the underlying cause is fraud, then making the tool available will only help the fraudsters cover up their mistakes. I know they didn't talk about fraud in the article, but that was what this method was developed to detect: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for-evaluating-published-research-9a4e5f05e870 https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for...