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Scientists make more than their fair share
"A new claim about a research finding is more likely to be false than true.
The hotter the field of research the more likely its published findings should be viewed skeptically, he determined.

Statistically speaking, science suffers from an excess of significance. Overeager researchers often tinker too much with the statistical variables of their analysis to coax any meaningful insight from their data sets. "People are messing around with the data to find anything that seems significant, to show they have found something that is new and unusual".

 09-20-2007

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