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| | There is widespread (even if not universal) agreement that something is deeply wrong with the current system of academic publishing. The basic point, which has been made innumerable times by innumerable people, is that the really hard parts -- the writing of papers, and the peer review and selection of the ones to publish --...
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| | Is there a conflict between academic freedom and open access policies? Or do those policies potential serve to strengthen our freedom?
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| | After a coalition of European science funding agencies announced their Plan S initiative for open access, a number of researchers wrote an o...
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| This is the second-part of a three-part series on hypothesis testing. Today we'll look at the way we do hypothesis testing in practice, and how it tends to fail. Modern researchers use hypothesis testing as a tool to develop knowledge, but it's really a tool for making decisions, and so it encourages us to draw strong conclusions from weak evidence. It also encourages us to view studies that don't reject the null hypothesis as failures, which leads even honest and dedicated researchers to do shoddy resea...