Episode 3 - Questionable Research Practices
Episode 3 - Questionable Research Practices\n\n\nThis week we discuss the prevalence of questionable research practices in John, Lowenstein, & Prelec \u201cMeasuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling\u201d http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611430953\n\n\nHighlights:\n\n[2:00] What are questionable research practices?\n[3:00] QRP as a political term\n[6:00] a pinch of transparency\n[8:00] QRPs as a grey area?\n[12:00] Does defining a QRP as \u2018just\u2019 questionable water down the message of \u2018this is wrong\u2019?\n[14:00] Do John, Lowenstein, & Prelec practice what they preach in this paper? We discuss the methodology\n[19:30] Figure 1 - What do we see? \u201cEverybody\u2019s doing it\u201d\n[22:00] Passing on QRPs throughout the (research) generations\n[24:30] Defending QRPs\n[28:00] What would the QRP rates look like now?\n[29:30] You can't round down p values to be less than .05, stop cheating\n[30:30] Figure 2 - \u201cI\u2019m fine and so are my collaborators, its other people that I doubt\u2026\u201d\n[33:00] Our job is to be critical. We get sad about the pushback to being critical on QRPs\n[35:00] Sam tries desperately to find a silver lining, Sophia advocates arson.