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Flawed Science and Stapel: Priming for a Backlash?
Deiderik Stapel is back in the news, given the availability of the English translation of the Tilberg (Levelt and Noort Committees) Report as well as his book, Ontsporing (Dutch for “Off the Rails”),...
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If it’s called the “The High Quality Research Act,” then ….
Among the (less technical) items sent my way over the past few days are discussions of the so-called High Quality Research Act. I’d not heard of it, but it’s apparently an outgrowth of the recent...
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Some statistical dirty laundry
I finally had a chance to fully read the 2012 Tilberg Report* on “Flawed Science” last night. Here are some stray thoughts… 1. Slipping into pseudoscience. The authors of the Report say they never...
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Richard Gill: “Integrity or fraud… or just quesionable research practices?”
Professor Gill Professor Richard Gill Statistics Group Mathematical Institute Leiden University http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/ I am very grateful to Richard Gill for permission to post an e-mail...
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Mayo: comment on the repressed memory research
Here are some reflections on the repressed memory articles from Richard Gill’s post, focusing on Geraerts, et.al.,(2008). 1. Richard Gill reported that “Everyone does it this way, in fact, if you...
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What do these share in common: m&ms, limbo stick, ovulation, Dale Carnegie?...
For entertainment only I had said I would label as pseudoscience or questionable science any enterprise that regularly permits the kind of ‘verification biases’ in the laundry list of my June 1 post....
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Will the Real Junk Science Please Stand Up? (critical thinking)
Equivocations about “junk science” came up in today’s “critical thinking” class; if anything, the current situation is worse than 2 years ago when I posted this. Have you ever noticed in wranglings...
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Beware of questionable front page articles warning you to beware of...
In this time of government cut-backs and sequester, scientists are under increased pressure to dream up ever new strategies to publish attention-getting articles with eye-catching, but inadequately...
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T. Kepler: “Trouble with ‘Trouble at the Lab’?” (guest post)
Tom Kepler’s guest post arose in connection with my November 9 post & comments. Professor Thomas B. Kepler Department of Microbiology Department of Mathematics & Statistics Boston University...
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S. Stanley Young: More Trouble with ‘Trouble in the Lab’ (Guest post)
Stanley Young’s guest post arose in connection with Kepler’s Nov. 13, and my November 9 post,and associated comments. S. Stanley Young, PhD Assistant Director for Bioinformatics National Institute of...
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capitalizing on chance (ii)
DGM playing the slots I may have been exaggerating one year ago when I started this post with “Hardly a day goes by”, but now it is literally the case*. (This also pertains to reading for Phil6334 for...
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Skeptical and enthusiastic Bayesian priors for beliefs about asylum...
Danvers State Hospital I had heard of medical designs that employ individuals who supply Bayesian subjective priors that are deemed either “enthusiastic” or “skeptical” as regards the probable value of...
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“Out Damned Pseudoscience: Non-significant results are the new ‘Significant’...
Sell me that antiseptic! We were reading “Out, Damned Spot: Can the ‘Macbeth effect’ be replicated?” (Earp,B., Everett,J., Madva,E., and Hamlin,J. 2014, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology 36: 91-8)...
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“Murder or Coincidence?” Statistical Error in Court: Richard Gill (TEDx video)
“There was a vain and ambitious hospital director. A bad statistician. ..There were good medics and bad medics, good nurses and bad nurses, good cops and bad cops … Apparently, even some people in the...
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Some ironies in the ‘replication crisis’ in social psychology (3rd installment)
There are some ironic twists in the way social psychology is dealing with its “replication crisis”, and they may well threaten even the most sincere efforts to put the field on firmer scientific...
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Should a “Fictionfactory” peepshow be barred from a festival on “Truth and...
So I hear that Diederik Stapel is the co-author of a book Fictionfactory (in Dutch,with a novelist, Dautzenberg)[i], and of what they call their “Fictionfactory peepshow”, only it’s been disinvited at...
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S. Stanley Young: Are there mortality co-benefits to the Clean Power Plan? It...
. S. Stanley Young, PhD Assistant Director Bioinformatics National Institute of Statistical Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC Are there mortality co-benefits to the Clean Power Plan? It depends....
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“Only those samples which fit the model best in cross validation were...
Potti (part 2) So it turns out there was an internal whistleblower in the Potti scandal at Duke after all (despite denials by the Duke researchers involved ). It was a medical student Brad Perez. It’s...
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Power Analysis and Non-Replicability: If bad statistics is prevalent in your...
fraudbusters If questionable research practices (QRPs) are prevalent in your field, then apparently you can’t be guilty of scientific misconduct or fraud (by mere QRP finagling), or so some suggest....
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Some statistical dirty laundry
. It’s an apt time to reblog the “statistical dirty laundry” post from 2013 here. I hope we can take up the recommendations from Simmons, Nelson and Simonsohn at the end (Note [5]), which we didn’t...
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