Bot crawls thousands of studies; finds concerning number of simple stats errors (opens in new tab)

(vox.com)

7 pointsoldbuzzard9y ago2 comments

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So just like we have spell checkers, someone needs to write a plugin (for pdflatex, etc) that sanity checks your papers as you're writing them.

If the underlying cause is fraud, then making the tool available will only help the fraudsters cover up their mistakes.

I know they didn't talk about fraud in the article, but that was what this method was developed to detect: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for...

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So just like we have spell checkers, someone needs to write a plugin (for pdflatex, etc) that sanity checks your papers as you're writing them.

If the underlying cause is fraud, then making the tool available will only help the fraudsters cover up their mistakes.

I know they didn't talk about fraud in the article, but that was what this method was developed to detect: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for...

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