Ann Feeney
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

In addition, in a publish or perish academic environment, researchers would be increasingly likely to focus only on studies that have a high likelihood of reaching that new threshold.

Requiring a higher p value is an excellent solution for certain problems. It is not a solution for a culture, in both business and academia, in which fudging the results, rushing to publish, or willfully misinterpreting findings are all too often rewarded.

More stringent requirements for making data sets public, encouraging researchers to share all findings (possibly making this mandatory for publicly-funded research), more emphasis on meta-analysis, curbing over-enthusiastic media relations departments (the difference between a paper’s abstract and press release are often ridiculous), and other changes that address the culture are (parts of) a better fix.

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