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293. Stop Torturing Data feat. Gary Smith
When scientists game the system to get publishable results, it undermines the legitimacy of science.. Data can be interpreted many different ways and sliced into an infinite number of shapes, but specifically shaping your results to make them fit restrictions leads everyone down the wrong path. This is called torturing data, and it can look like cherry-picking participants or results for a study or getting your results first and then reverse engineering your hypothesis after the fact.Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He is also the author of several…
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