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I believe this applies mostly to public science. Private science is anchored by a market-based mechanism that naturally expunges fraud.
by RA_Fisher 8y ago
I believe this applies mostly to public science. Private science is anchored by a market-based mechanism that naturally expunges fraud.
- r00fus 8y agoIs this a joke? Profit motive is far more likely to put the cart before the horse: pushing for evidence to support outcomes.
- jessewmc 8y agoI think they were referring to internal research that says 'if we do X we can sell more' which has naturally aligned incentives. This as opposed to releasing research along the lines of 'cigarettes are fine for you! smoke more!'
- sheepmullet 8y ago> if we do X we can sell more' which has naturally aligned incentives. Even then there are agency problems which mean that once a company gets over a certain size there is no natural alignment. I know plenty of managers tweaking A/B tests until they get the results they want.
- RA_Fisher 8y agoEasy fix: hire a statistician. :-)
- RA_Fisher 8y agoThis is a quote from a preeminent scientist: https://twitter.com/bmbaczkowski/status/1069891514275385344?s=21 https://twitter.com/bmbaczkowski/status/1069891514275385344?... "in academia overfitting can get you a nature paper, in industry get you fired"
- lostlogin 8y agoNot so much. When you pay someone to get a result, that’s what they do.