I did stats and applied research so I basically got to read papers as my full time job, then go home and read papers as a hobby.
Most fields are really bad at stats which is one thing that is pervasive across just about all science. More than half of science wouldn’t exist without some sort of fraud, clear selection bias, or p-hacking.
It’s to the point that one sure way to lose friends and be shunned in academia is to be good at statistics.
It’s like the plagiarism scandal, academics have been getting away with it for so long it’s become normalized. It used to be that plagiarism would be the absolute end of any academic career. Now some academics are arguing for an amnesty on the basis that everyone did it and others are ignoring it.
Edit: I should point out like the other commenter that a lot of the fraudulent data is laughably blatant. Like pulled ‘random’ numbers straight from their head, not even using any type of random number generator. Or pulling random numbers from wrong distribution. Or not using realistic noise etc.
Most fields are really bad at stats which is one thing that is pervasive across just about all science. More than half of science wouldn’t exist without some sort of fraud, clear selection bias, or p-hacking.
It’s to the point that one sure way to lose friends and be shunned in academia is to be good at statistics.
It’s like the plagiarism scandal, academics have been getting away with it for so long it’s become normalized. It used to be that plagiarism would be the absolute end of any academic career. Now some academics are arguing for an amnesty on the basis that everyone did it and others are ignoring it.
Edit: I should point out like the other commenter that a lot of the fraudulent data is laughably blatant. Like pulled ‘random’ numbers straight from their head, not even using any type of random number generator. Or pulling random numbers from wrong distribution. Or not using realistic noise etc.