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Wow. Could there be any explanation for this or is this as bad as it looks? If so, serious question, how do they get away with things like this? It's at Cambrid
by aje403 8y ago
Wow. Could there be any explanation for this or is this as bad as it looks? If so, serious question, how do they get away with things like this? It's at Cambridge, I mean you would have higher expectations? Maybe not?
- dekhn 8y agoScientists are under intense pressure to post amazing results. How do they get away with it? All the other scientists are doing the same things and nobody wants to stop the merry-go-round.
- nonbel 8y agoIt is common sense to check your control group measurements against the literature and see where they stand. I would also expect to mention the results of that search in the paper. Looking closer at the paper I see they also had some spleen sizes from a European cohort. They do not seem to tell us what those volumes were, instead only reporting p-values. Can anyone find it?
- aje403 8y agohttp://www.humanfunctionalgenomics.org/site/?page_id=82 http://www.humanfunctionalgenomics.org/site/?page_id=82 is what they used Those don't appear to be spleen sizes, though. It looks like they're just saying that they did a regression on some data linking "SNP"s to thyroid hormone levels. Then, they did a different but similar regression on data from the Bajau. I don't know what the relation of the SNPs are to spleen size but don't see anything noted in that area of the paper. IANA social scientist, but it looks quite goofy. They also note that they could not verify any relationship between spleen and thyroid sizes anyway.
- nonbel 8y agoI think they did look at "other" spleen sizes and just chose not to mention it. This really just looks like another case of "reject null hypothesis -> conclude whatever we want".