Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See

Re:Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scient... by stilley2 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:21PM (#18410598)

I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpreted that way.

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Re:Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scient... by AlexCoventry on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:09PM (#18410895)

Exploratory work is extremely valuable, but less trustworthy ipso facto.

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Re:Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scient... by ianbooker on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:33PM (#18410672)

That is right, And wrong.

There are explicit exploratory methods you can use to carry out research and that is very fine, but most research today is done using an inference model, where you formulate a hypothesis and use data to corroborate it.

That is one of the premises of big data that most people do not get: It enables you to do research explicitly exploratory again, while still being rigorous and somehow falsifiable..

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Re:Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scient... by stilley2 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:38PM (#18410711)

What specific exploratory methods are you referring to?

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