Ersetzt man nach Erhalt frischer #Daten die ursprüngliche Ausgangs-#Hypothese durch eine "passendere", betreibt man sogenanntes #HARKing. Damit führt man die Kollegen an der Nase herum – und nicht selten auch sich selbst … — In unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3156.php

Looking for material on #harking in #qualitative #politicalScience research. I don't know of any papers that directly discuss the issue. My uninformed hunch is that much qualitative research poses as hypothesis-testing (because that's fashionable and gets you published), even when the research started out much more inductive. Is this is as much of a problem as it would be in quant research? #research_methods

Table 1 of the "False-positive psychology" paper (Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn 2011, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2916240) estimate the false-positive rate of some questionable #ResearchPractices, both alone and in combination (see attached figure).

I remember reading somewhere that the authors later stated that the numbers were inaccurate and should have been somewhat higher. Does anyone have a reference for this? #FalsePositivePsychology #QRP #phacking #HARKing #ReproducibiliTea

What's your favorite resource explaining #p_hacking and #HARKing ?

Needed for the @digiresacademy advent calendar 🎄

[en] Cheating in Science: Harvard "Honesty Scholar" May Have Been Caught in Dishonesty

"... dishonesty can lead to creativity" - an interesting and somewhat amusing read.

The New York Times: "Questions about a widely cited paper are the latest to be raised about methods used in #behavioral research."

https://datacolada.org/111

#ResearchHighlights #honesty #dishonesty #phacking #harking #dredging #gino #harvard #fraud #cheating #academic #datacolada

I just had a long discussion with a colleague who is about to start a complex and burdensome #experiment whose design imho is flawed. I'm well aware my reasoning might be wrong. What troubles me is the handwaving way specific experimental design questions, e.g.:
- What are you going to measure as result?
- X and Y frequency
- How will you interpret if Y is say 20%?
- We could theorise, but we'll do the experiment instead, we'll see when we get the results...
#harking #reproducibility #science

@tedpavlic I'm sure it's not the intention - indeed they add a cautionary note - but this kind of advice leads to HARKing & other questionable research practices that massage research into a neat narrative.

It's the antithesis of #OpenScience practices like #RegisteredReports. You should start with a research question, a summary of what is known, & then the methods. Post-hoc theorising must be declared. It keeps you honest.

#WritingTips #ResearchWriting #HARKing #QRPs #PublicationEthics

Demeter, das bessere Bio?

https://www.zdf.de/show/mai-think-x-die-show/maithink-x-folge-05-100.html

#Demeter #Biodynamisch #BiodynamischenLandwirtschaft #Kackhörnchen #Bio #Öko #Landwirtschaft #Essen #Nahrung #RudolfSteiner #Anthroposophie #Wissenschaft #Harking #ZDF #MaiThi #MAITHINKX