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Universities can't do that, because they lack the expertise. Most of the time, the only people in a university capable of judging a study are the people who did
by jltsiren 3y ago
Universities can't do that, because they lack the expertise. Most of the time, the only people in a university capable of judging a study are the people who did it.
That's because universities are in the business of teaching. Apart from a few rare exceptions, universities don't have the money to hire redundant people. Instead of hiring many experts in the same topic, they prefer hiring a wider range of expertise, in order to provide better learning opportunities for the students.
- mkl 3y ago> Universities can't do that, because they lack the expertise. Most of the time, the only people in a university capable of judging a study are the people who did it. Statisticians can find faults in many studies. Universities even employ statisticians to act as consultants for research in other departments, as that raises the quality of the institution's publications.
- jltsiren 3y agoStatisticians can find faults in many studies, but without a sufficient background in the topic, they can rarely tell if those faults actually matter. And the statisticians who have the background are usually already involved in the study anyway.