Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical statistics

Re:Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical stat... by archgoon on Sunday December 30, 2012 @07:57PM (#4987791)

"Journal of Plausible, but Ultimately Unworkable Hypotheses"

Problem is, you don't want a high publication count in such a hypothetical journal. That's the other side of publication bias.

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Re:Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical stat... by alanctgardner2 on Sunday December 30, 2012 @11:52PM (#4988428)

But we have computers! This would be final step of proposing a project; check that a negative, peer-reviewed version hasn't been published. Putting them in separate journals actually solves a lot of the complaints in this thread

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Re:Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical stat... by archgoon on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:59AM (#4988559)

Sorry for the confusion, that wasn't my point. The issue isn't that there would be a ton of research to wade through, the issue is that scientists whose research didn't pan now have a track record of failure. I can easily imagine a academic position hiring conversation going like "This guy has a higher failure to success ratio than average, and his successful projects aren't above average."

EDIT: But perhaps I'm being too cynical (must be the New Year). Such a journal has been constructed.

http://www.jnrbm.com/

With luck, it will be wildly (un)successful :).

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Re:Something Doesn't Add Up: John Ioannidis and medical stat... by tedunangst on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:57AM (#4988554)

You as a researcher do not want your name to appear in such a journal. Especially not lots of times.

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