Sentences with phrase «questionable research practices»

Barring that expensive and time - consuming effort, there are mathematical tests that scientists can perform to determine if the results from a set of studies might be the result of questionable research practices such as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.
In that, 2 per cent admitted to falsification or fabrication, and about a third admitted to other questionable research practices.
The philosophy behind Registered Reports is that the new format will help improve research transparency and reproducibility by reducing publication bias — journals» favoring of certain types of results — and, consequently, the questionable research practices that some scientists adopt to make their results more likely to be published.
In one study that pooled numerous surveys of researchers in diverse fields, a third of scientists owned up to questionable research practices like cherry - picking data that yield positive results.

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Short seller Andrew Left of Citron Research later brought attention to Valeant's questionable accounting practices in relation to Philidor.
Thanks to questionable practices such as paying women for their eggs, the group was able to collect more than 2000 oocytes for its research (ScienceNOW, 12 May 2006).
Other breaches of RI, not so serious as to amount to RM, are referred to as questionable or detrimental research practices (QRP or DRP) and are nevertheless firmly discouraged and may also be sanctioned.
Where, she wondered, «is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts, and other questionable practices in the primary grades?»
Following such reports of poor academic outcomes and questionable ethical practices, our research team at Penn State has decided to continue to study the cyber charter school movement in Pennsylvania to find out more.
A custom writing service never uses amateur writers; it never allows questionable practices of just re-writing or «spinning» previously written works; and it does not tolerate poor research and writing that does not meet the highest standards.
About Blog This Atlantic magazine blog features counterintuitive research findings, emerging public health problems, questionable practices and articles that explore medicine from historical, anthropological and sociological perspectives.
About Blog This Atlantic magazine blog features counterintuitive research findings, emerging public health problems, questionable practices and articles that explore medicine from historical, anthropological and sociological perspectives.
About Blog This Atlantic magazine blog features counterintuitive research findings, emerging public health problems, questionable practices and articles that explore medicine from historical, anthropological and sociological perspectives.
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