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 dbt00 on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:37AM (#18412754)

You could go read the original paper and examine the actual data and scientific conclusions drawn from the underlying data as represented on that chart.

You could look for confirmation or disconfirmation of the hypothesis that preregistration leads to an increase in null results in other data sets.

Both of those seem like more useful ways to dispute this finding than squinting at a graph and finding fault with a blog post headline.

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Re:Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scient... by epistasis on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:04AM (#18412835)

I'm not sure if you meant to reply to me, because every aspect of your post is wrong.

The "squinting at the graph" was assuming that there's a sudden change. I read the paper, and looked up several studies and came to the conclusion that the paper was being misrepresented by the blog text. And I agreed with the headline, but not with the blog text.

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