And it is a terrible thing for science and contributes greatly to the crisis of irreproducibility plaguing multiple fields.
If 1000 researchers study the same thing, and 950 of them find insignificant results and don’t publish, and 50 of them publish their significant (95% confidence) results - we have collectively deluded ourselves into accepting spurious conclusions.
This is a massive problem that is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely discussed.
And it is a terrible thing for science and contributes greatly to the crisis of irreproducibility plaguing multiple fields.
If 1000 researchers study the same thing, and 950 of them find insignificant results and don’t publish, and 50 of them publish their significant (95% confidence) results - we have collectively deluded ourselves into accepting spurious conclusions.
This is a massive problem that is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely discussed.