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RichardKennaway comments on Pressure to publish increases scientists' vulnerability to positive bias - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: lukeprog 08 September 2011 08:49PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 September 2011 01:24:56PM 1 point [-]

Availability bias? The US is conveniently divided up into 50 chunks, and a lot of statistical information is aggregated at state level, so there's a great convenience for researchers in dividing things up that way, whether it makes sense or not.