Re:Suspicious Discontinuities
by disgruntledphd2 on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:03AM
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Conditional on being published, this is true. Hence studies of the file-drawer effect and what not.
More generally, scientists are incentivised to find novel findings (i.e. unexpectedly low p-values) or lose their job.
Given that, the plot doesn't surprise me at all (Also, people will normally not report a bunch of non-significant results, which is a similar but unrelated problem).
More generally, scientists are incentivised to find novel findings (i.e. unexpectedly low p-values) or lose their job.
Given that, the plot doesn't surprise me at all (Also, people will normally not report a bunch of non-significant results, which is a similar but unrelated problem).