Re:Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science
by GFischer on Sunday July 30, 2017 @09:07AM
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Clickbait title, but the issue of reproducibility on social science studies is well worth investigating.
What the article wants is something that I'd say couldn't and shouldn't be done (in terrible writing: "some sort of machine with, like, a slot for feeding in journal articles. And two lights on the front: red and green. Ping or bzzzt.)
What the investigators say they're working on goes from good suggestions (pre-registering a research plan (to ward off accusations of P hacking) and making full sets of data and the code used to analyze it available) to bad ones (Social networks) - if you're an outsider like Perelman you're out.
What the article wants is something that I'd say couldn't and shouldn't be done (in terrible writing: "some sort of machine with, like, a slot for feeding in journal articles. And two lights on the front: red and green. Ping or bzzzt.)
What the investigators say they're working on goes from good suggestions (pre-registering a research plan (to ward off accusations of P hacking) and making full sets of data and the code used to analyze it available) to bad ones (Social networks) - if you're an outsider like Perelman you're out.