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Jack comments on Satire of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology's publication bias - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: CarlShulman 05 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: Jack 05 June 2012 04:19:19AM 17 points [-]

My favorite part:

Finally, a skeptic might counter that the JPSP authors could have conducted the studies, found results, dismissed inconsistent data, and then written the paper as if those were the results that they had anticipated all along. However, orchestrating such a large-scale hoax would require the coordination and involvement of thousands of researchers, reviewers, and editors. Researchers would have to selectively report those that “worked.” Reviewers and editors would have to selectively accept positive, confirmatory results and reject any norm violating researchers that submitted negative results. The possibility that an entire field could be perpetrating such a scam is so counterintuitive that only a social psychologist could predict it if it were actually true.