6 ms·
You absolutely can ask to have your named removed. To be diplomatic, you can always claim that you didn't do enough to deserve credit. Even now, you could conta
by SubiculumCode 5y ago
You absolutely can ask to have your named removed. To be diplomatic, you can always claim that you didn't do enough to deserve credit. Even now, you could contact the journal to request the change.
In your particular case, I will not contest that the reanalysis was terrible. My point was that reanalysis of a paper after an issue is raised is not automatically also crap. It may indeed be correcting the issue.
- rscho 5y agoYes, I could ask to lose my job. But again, I prefer not to. Research in certain (most?) fields is a dictatorship and even suggesting something to be fishy puts a target on your back. In this particular case, there were multiple outcomes tested (read: tens of them) and alpha was .05
- SubiculumCode 5y agoMan, all I can say is you are working for a bad prof then. I can't imagine any of my former advisors/colleagues/etc punishing me for declining to be a co-author.
- rscho 5y agoI am guessing that you don't do clinical research, then ;-)
- SubiculumCode 5y agoIm on the edge of clinical work. I work with some clinical people, but am not clinical myself. I would say that they are a bit more willing to be instrumental and throw a bunch of comparisons out and see what sticks. Its largely because of a lack of awareness about statistical issues though, and they respond well to my objections.
- rscho 5y agoWell, most professors around here don't respond well at all to objections. All (MD) professors I've met are dangerous Excel spreadsheet warriors. Note that we have a statistician in our unit, that no one listens to because "we always did it that way, right?". However, in a wider view the issue is far bigger than that: for a clinician nowadays it's become basically impossible to both be a really honest researcher while acquiring sufficient publication velocity to rise above. In a word, our system selects for bad actors.
- frostburg 5y agoI occasionally help this sort of people process and visualize data (they ignore their own internal statisticians, of course), but they're friends, so I can shut them down when needed. I have heard the term "retrospective control group" being used.
- samatman 5y agoI'm reminded of a bit of dialogue from Fight Club: "Which car company do you work for?" "...a major one."
- oldgradstudent 5y agoDo they produce mere noise, or there's additional fraud involved?
- rscho 5y agoNoise. But don't judge too harshly, it's actually like that everywhere I got to work.
- oldgradstudent 5y agoThat's why I judge it so harshly.