Gotta love #research sometimes; review of studies on publication bias finding publication bias in the field http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0066844 …
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Soon there'll be enough systematic reviews to do a review of reviews in the ultimate recursive research
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So, publication bias is when studies don't get published because they find no significance (i.e. they are negative)https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/858811749608247302 …
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People have conducted trials to identify areas of research where there is publication bias
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These researchers conducted a review to examine whether the researchers looking at publication bias were themselves a victim of it
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And they found that, indeed, there is publication bias in the field of publication bias researchhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/858811749608247302 …
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i.e. that studies OF publication bias that didn't find a significant effect were less likely to be published. Which is hilariously ironic.
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...And also a sad indictment of scientific publishing. But let's focus on the comedypic.twitter.com/YVHtnhbcvv
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