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Swimmy comments on What's wrong with psychology, anyway? - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 28 April 2012 11:36PM

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Comment author: Swimmy 30 April 2012 01:34:00AM 3 points [-]

Furthermore, we should expect grants to go to those projects that show the most promise for publishing. "Publishable" does not mean "good," and publication bias is one of the biggest pathologies of modern science. This is a lousy metric.