Coding error influences public policy
There’s an op ed in the New York Times about how a coding error in an economics article may have had profoundly negative influence on economic policy:
#source: new york times
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Bias in reporting efficacy and toxicity in breast cancer trials
Read more → More from Meta-science →A recent paper did an analysis of breast cancer studies published over the last 16 years. They evaluated 164 trials and looked at whether results re: the drug’s toxicity or overall survival rate was reported prominently in the abstract, within the article, or at all. They looked at who funded the work, the impact factor of the journal the work was published in, and most interestingly, whether the trial found positive or negative results.
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Underrepresentation of Women In Science
Read more → More from Meta-science →I normally do not post about sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry in the scientific community here. While I obviously think they exist and am against them, it is ambiguous how these “isms” impact/bias the scientific literature. (I am sure they do. But perhaps in a less concrete way than, say, the file-drawer phenomenon, or clear misuse of statistics.)