No Wonder Scientists Ask Statisticians to Cook the Data

No Wonder Scientists Ask Statisticians to Cook the Data

You won’t believe the things scientists ask statisticians to do.

When statisticians responded to a survey about the kinds of requests they received from biomedical scientists, a number of them reported “inappropriate requests” like throwing out or ignoring inconvenient data points and otherwise finding ways to make things look like the scientist got a desired result, rather than the truth.

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