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The approach fails miserably when taken in aggregate. I would read five to ten papers from my own field a week while in grad school. If I had to do the analysis
by Misdicorl 5y ago
The approach fails miserably when taken in aggregate. I would read five to ten papers from my own field a week while in grad school. If I had to do the analysis for myself as well there wouldn't be any time to do my own research.
Add on twenty more papers a week from adjacent fields where I don't even know all the techniques and the magnitude of the problem hopefully becomes clearer.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoThe raw figures would be available in addition to the paper itself, not instead of it.
- chalst 5y agoGelman's suggestion is how to handle articles with unlikely conclusions: don't publish the submitted article, though that presumably would be circulated as a preprint, but just the data. Then the journal is bringing attention to interesting data without endorsing the dubious analysis or conclusions.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoThanks, must have read that too quickly :-P It doesn't strike me as as very practical step. Pre-registration seems much more sensible.