‘False Positive Science’: ‘It is unacceptably easy to publish ‘statistically significant’ evidence consistent with any hypothesis’
'Current standards for disclosing details of data collection and analyses make false positives vastly more likely...When we as researchers face ambiguous analytic decisions, we will tend to conclude, with convincing self-justification, that the appropriate decisions are those that result in statistical significance. Ambiguity is rampant in empirical research'
