Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis 252
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from the devil-is-in-the-details dept.
from the devil-is-in-the-details dept.
mlimber writes "The Wall Street Journal has a sobering piece describing the research of medical scholar John Ioannidis, who showed that in many peer-reviewed research papers 'most published research findings are wrong.' The article continues: 'These flawed findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud or formal misconduct, but from more mundane misbehavior: miscalculation, poor study design or self-serving data analysis. [...] To root out mistakes, scientists rely on each other to be vigilant. Even so, findings too rarely are checked by others or independently replicated. Retractions, while more common, are still relatively infrequent. Findings that have been refuted can linger in the scientific literature for years to be cited unwittingly by other researchers, compounding the errors.'"
Oh yea baby... (Score:3, Funny)
Here it comes... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How is this news? (Score:5, Funny)
After all, studies show that most studies are wrong.
What About this Study? (Score:5, Funny)
According to my research (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot taints article study finds (Score:4, Funny)
Authorities are also investigating the connections between Malda, Bush Laden, Bill Gates, Dvorak and Borat [mit.edu] SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
o the irony (Score:4, Funny)
pot, meet kettle
Double checked (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How is this news? (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think a postdoc would have known this.
Re:How is this news? (Score:2, Funny)
yeah but... (Score:2, Funny)
A scientific study published that most scientific studies are wrong... therefore there is a good change of it being wrong.... Which means that most scientific studies are right... But if most studies are right then this one is also right... which means...
c.. an.. t take
[Head explodes]
I'm sorry (Score:3, Funny)
Summary (Score:3, Funny)
and
Re:So you lied about reading the articles? (Score:2, Funny)
Pot meet kettle.