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In a now-famous paper2, John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist currently at Stanford School of Medicine in California argued that "most published research findings are false", according to statistical logic. In a survey of more than 2,000 psychologists, Leslie John, a consumer psychologist from...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2012-05, Vol.485 (7398), p.298
Main Author: Yong, Ed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Experiments
Medical research
Psychologists
Psychology
Science
Students
Studies
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Summary:In a now-famous paper2, John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist currently at Stanford School of Medicine in California argued that "most published research findings are false", according to statistical logic. In a survey of more than 2,000 psychologists, Leslie John, a consumer psychologist from Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, showed that more than 50% had waited to decide whether to collect more data until they had checked the significance of their results, thereby allowing them to hold out until positive results materialize. Some researchers are agnostic about the outcome, but Pashler expects to see confirmation of his fears: that the corridor gossip about irreproducible studies and the file drawers stuffed with failed attempts at replication will turn out to be real.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/485298a