Episode 3 - Questionable Research Practices

Published: July 24, 2018, 10:36 a.m.

b"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."