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