Another from Stuart Buck, which argues that academic incentives align strongly with committing research fraud, rather than calling it out, and - consequently - research agencies need to fund active discovery of fraud goodscience.substack.com/p/com

#research #metaresearch

Researchers! Please complete my poll with uneven response options (and boost for reach)

How much of a problem is deliberate research fraud?

@tomstafford
I think there's a lot of accepted behaviour that is really wrong

"Just do three replicates, that's enough to do stats"

"It's almost significantly different, just do it again"

"We'll just discard this sample, something must have happened here"

"I've tried <test X> but it didn't show the difference, so I went with <test Y>"

@nicolaromano @tomstafford
I'd agree. But that's why I voted C. It's past the time where these self serving bad practices can be called "inadvertent".

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