p-Hacking

Science isn’t broken is a marvelous article on science, careless data interpretation, and the cult of publishing only significant results.

In the last two nibbles on this site I linked to articles that criticized the practice of “p-hacking” and illustrated the “conformation bias (/node/2108)” that – in combination – lead to innumerable bogus scientific research papers and an increasing number of serious scientific outlets that start to change their review and publication policies.

... dass es bei Experimenten mit kleine Samples und viele abhängige Variablen zu einer Kumulierung der Alphafehler kommt. Und niemanden interessiert's.