Re: Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting
Dr. Fannelli raises a valuable point concerning transparency and reporting standards. As in other fields, in my field of psychology the guidelines with respect to what one should report (e.g., in terms...
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I think this is an excellent argument and an innovative perspective that ought to be discussed and implemented. I'd also second Jelte Wicherts' comment that data ought to be supplied with the...
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"Graduate students could, in addition to learning the guidelines, train by replicating published studies. Special research funds could be reserved for independent replications of unchallenged claims."I...
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I totally agree that something needs to be done. Out of the 4 labs that I worked in, I saw questionable practices in two of them. One quite serious, the other less so. But the truth of the matter is...
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There are several types of fraud that seem to be prevalent such as plagiarism and image manipulation. This is surely because these are the easiest to detect (either automatically, or the remarkable...
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I think Fanelli is heading in the right direction here. I really like the point about focusing on what's being reported, not what's being done. After all, most failures to replicate aren't due to...
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"Graduate students could, in addition to learning the guidelines, train by replicating published studies." I don't like this one. Any grad student will ask, when do we do, at last, our own research?...
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I take the authors' point about these things, and those that he highlights are a problem in my view too. However, I would suggest that many of them simply vanish if high standards of research are...
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The trouble with leaving it at "distorted reporting" is that a principled account is needed for what could as relevant evidence. For example, a frequentist statistician would require knowing anything...
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Scientific probity and the market for lemonsRedefining scientific misconduct as distorted reporting1 addresses a significant but insufficient fraction of the current problems with the probity of...
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