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I've never heard the term "HARKing" before. This is exactly what my advisor had me do on our experiments that couldn't confirm our initial hypotheses. I knew
by kradroy 8y ago
I've never heard the term "HARKing" before. This is exactly what my advisor had me do on our experiments that couldn't confirm our initial hypotheses. I knew it was wrong because we set up the experiments in a way to eliminate confounding variables. So any conclusions drawn on data for hypotheses outside of those would be suspect. The experiments we ran were costly in time to do because we were using feedback from students using our learning system over a semester.
I quit working with her because of that, and also because she was a total asshole. I refuse to donate to my university until she's no longer on the faculty. I don't want her benefiting from my hard-earned money.
- MrEfficiency 8y agoThis is why I believe in Engineering and not the modern "Academia Science". Totally corrupt, Ive seen it when I talked to professors about getting my PhD. You prove what they want proven. One is going to have millions of customers using it, the other is going to have a few biased professors review the data.
- vkou 8y agoIf you think this is any different from how industry works, you have not spent enough time in industry. After-the-fact-hypothesis is constantly used to retroactively justify business decisions.
- MrEfficiency 8y agoI have 10 years in Industry, testing hypothesis is testing. Building a product that is bad because 'X person wanted it' is bad Capitalism and will be punished. Academia doesnt have this same customer focused delivery.
- rossdavidh 8y agoHmmm...I think it depends on how fast the feedback loop of bad sales is. There are lots of cases where somebody inside a corporation wants the answer to be "X", because that's what they had advocated. It may be worse for the corporation as a whole, but it's better for that guy's career, and if the hit to the corporation is not immediately visible.