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Learning a lot how science actually works and how flawed it is I came to the conclusion that the biggest boost in scientific progress you could ever achieve is
by hannob 7y ago
Learning a lot how science actually works and how flawed it is I came to the conclusion that the biggest boost in scientific progress you could ever achieve is by eliminating science waste and doing more good science.
There are a few tiny steps in the right direction, but it's frustratingly slow. Once you understand a phenomena like publication bias it's hard to swallow that there are still empirical studies published without preregistration. There are so many studies published with such low quality that it's a complete waste, because the likelyhood that they're some statistical fluke is much higher than that they tell the truth.
Though the problems are known since a while, little has changed:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
- godelski 7y agoThat is a very click-baity publication (yes, it happens). Title suggests this phenomena is independent of fields. Content talks about the high p value. Not every field uses this metric. So this publication is aimed pretty much at medicine. While I think the p-value thing needs to be rethought, it is bold to claim "Most Published Research Findings Are False". Honestly it would be more accurate to say "Errors matter and we can't take findings at face value and ignore error bars". Which is pretty much something every self-respecting scientist should know in the first place.