Self Help For Smart People - How You Can Spot Bad Science & Decode Scientific Studies with Dr. Brian Nosek
The Science of Success
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The Negative Impact of Scientific Studies on the Credibility of Evidence
Many scientific studies, though they meet the criteria for academic publishing, may actually be factually incorrect. One of the primary reasons is that researchers can have an incentive to only publish studies that have sort of a positive result or show some kind of finding. "It's a matter of figuring out how our ordinary biases of human reasoning might decrease the credibility of the evidence," he says.
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