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Replication is hard, even without publication bias (mattsclancy.substack.com)
2 points by barry-cotter on May 5, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> I take away three things from this literature:

> Failures to replicate are to be expected, given the state of our methodological technology, even in the best circumstances, even if there’s no publication bias Form your ideas based on suites of papers, or entire literatures, not primarily on individual studies There is plenty of randomness in the research process for publication bias to exploit.




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