CNN's John Sutter apologizes for first hearing about your paper. Most published results are why most research findings are false, he says. How do you keep humility? "So much potential for making mistakes and errors ... some humility is indispensable"
John Ioannidis of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on the reliability of published research findings. They discuss Ioannidis's recent study on bias in economics research, meta-analysis, the challenge of small sample analysis, and the reliability of statistical significance as a measure of success in empirical research.