I'm surprised and excited to see that many of the problems that we have seen in biomedical fields are not just applicable to these biomedical fields. At the moment I'm working on appraising biases and trying to test out solutions in very different fields. There's a lot of exciting work happening in psychology and social sciences, economics just as well. So I feel a little bit like a kid in a candy shop. All of that is just so exciting.
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.