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>P-hacking rampant give us your best academic hypothesis as to why p-hacking is rampant: I'll bet it will sound like psych analysis
by fsckboy 1y ago
>P-hacking rampant
give us your best academic hypothesis as to why p-hacking is rampant: I'll bet it will sound like psych analysis
- erikerikson 1y agoIncentives. Straight outta the dismal science.
- fsckboy 1y agopeople go into academia for the money? no. they do it for the recognition they seek, the status they will attain. publish or perish.
- erikerikson 1y ago> publish or perish Yes, that's the summary of the incentive system. It's not a highly remunerative profession although the rockstars can do quite well (usually through side gigs). Practitioners of economics accept many types of scarcity and currency. Consider, for example, the marketplace of ideas paid for with attention, belief, energy spent spreading our favorites.