p-hacking

Royal Society Open Science Big little lies: a compendium and simulation of p-hacking strategies Angelika M. Stefan and Felix D. Schönbrodt Abstract In many research fields, the widespread use of questionable research practices has jeopardized the credibility of scientific results. One of the...

Excerpt: Could the p-values in a paper be large because the researchers have conducted a careful power analysis? The argument goes like this: Researchers don’t want to be wasteful with their resources, so they do their best to predict the effect size that their experiment will yield. Once...

Abstract The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old. This order is intuitive and reflected in many features of academic life, but whether it reflects the “hardness” of...

Somebody suggested to me that this might be of relevance to ME/CFS research. I'm not sure we really need to get into this depth in terms of some issues, but who knows. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791...