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Edit to my own comment to clarify: while I believe replication should be encouraged, because statistics!, this might set a precedent that gives incentives to sc
by blue_devil 7y ago
Edit to my own comment to clarify: while I believe replication should be encouraged, because statistics!, this might set a precedent that gives incentives to scientists to replicate high-profile articles AND refute them since the original journal would be guaranteed to publish them. If you've been in academia, a publication like this could grant your grant, pardon the pun.
- username90 7y agoYou don't think there is a problem with it being that easy to convincingly refute articles in the most prestigious science journals? I think that encouraging those refutations would be good, both to force the reviewers to do a better job and as you said encourage opportunists to poke hole in existing papers. It would be good if a significant amount of scientists built their entire career around poking hole in bad papers like this.
- blue_devil 7y agoTechnically, not a refutation because a statistical analysis never refutes a hypothesis, only supports it with a certain probability or does not support it. That is, a negative result is inconclusive. No, I do not think "poking holes" should be incentivised - I believe REPLICATIONS of studies should be incentivised, because every study = a sample. Statistically, the more samples, the better able we are to filter through the noise. What you suggest will encourage scientific sensationalism.