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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by rscho on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:48AM (#27243596)
Not outright cheating, but cooking results to seem better/surprising and publishing lots of those shitty papers is the optimal way to build a career in many fields. In medicine, for example.
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by lasfter on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:07AM (#27243972)
Cooking results seems like outright cheating to me.
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by DistressedDrone on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:22AM (#27246793)
It's more complicated than that. It can look something like this: https://xkcd.com/882/
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