Re:When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again
by DAGdug on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:04PM
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Yes, precisely this! I’ve seen more than a few people fired for generating BS analyses that didn’t help their employer, especially in tech where scrutiny is immense when things start to fail.
The incentives in medicine are more similar to those in academia, where your job is to cook up data that convinces someone else of your results, with highly imbalanced incentives that reward fraud.