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Comment author: Azathoth123 15 July 2014 02:19:04AM 8 points [-]

I would venture to guess that the crappy state of science in e.g. China is just due to the weak institutions/high corruption levels in their society. If you think you can get away with dumping plastic in milk, a little data faking is the least of your problems.

That explains China and Russia/USSR, it doesn't explain Japan and Taiwan.

Comment author: private_messaging 21 July 2014 05:42:39AM *  3 points [-]

The study was looking at English texts, not Russian, Chinese, or Japanese texts.

edit: a study on foreign language bias in German speaking countries.

Only 35% of German-language articles, compared with 62% of English-language articles, reported significant (p < 0.05) differences in the main endpoint between study and control groups (p = 0.002 by McNemar's test)

And that's Germans, for whom it is piss easy to learn English (compared to Russians, Chinese, or Japanese).

Comment author: gwern 21 July 2014 02:33:45PM 1 point [-]

Why did you omit the part where a third of the sample was published in both English and German, and hence weakens the bias? (That is comparable to the overlap for Chinese & English publications.)

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