Solutions: P-Curves
A paper and associated web-based tool have been proposed to detect publication bias and p-hacking in the literature. From the paper:
#statistical power
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Methods reporting in the fMRI literature
Read more → More from Meta-science →I spent three years working in fMRI labs. To this day it’s not clear to me if the field has exceptionally ambiguous standards, or if it’s only one of many scientific subfields based around new technology struggling to define good practice. Whether it’s got company or not, neuroimaging certainly has issues.
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Power failure
Read more → More from Meta-science →There’s a new article out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience about the failure of scientific studies in general (and neuroscience and fMRI studies in particular) to adequately power their studies. The NRN paper isn’t open access, but you can email the authors for a pre-print. There’s a good write-up at National Geographic.