Interesting you describe it as being ‘too important’ for being a reason people lie and cheat in the social sciences. I wouldn’t put it so kindly. Academia as a

Interesting you describe it as being ‘too important’ for being a reason people lie and cheat in the social sciences. I wouldn’t put it so kindly. Academia as a power structure is a lot about gaining and retaining power, this also encourages researchers to intentionally or unintentionally fabricate results, to make a name, to get cited, to get funding and prestige. I do buy the fact that many individuals conducting the tests don’t have a firm enough grasp on basic statistics but it’s laughable that an industry that relies on proving its worth via these measures, failed for so long to put emphasis on the value of measuring things the right way. Especially with the so called peer review system. The bigger fraud is that so many people decided to go into the field on the back of seeing results from these studies reported in the press and spent hundreds of thousands of $$ on what is largely being seen as snake oil.