The Natural Selection of Bad Science.¶
Smaldino, P. E., & McElreath, R. (2016). The Natural Selection of Bad Science. Royal Society Open Science, 3(9).
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Primes¶
- Goodhart's Law
- In science, citation counts, h-indices, impact factors, and p-values, once tied to careers and funding, produce citation cartels, p-hacking, salami publication, and a replication crisis that is in large part a Goodhart collapse on the statistical-significance proxy.
This sourceShows that incentives tying career advancement to publication select for low-power, false-positive-prone methods (p-hacking) with no conscious cheating — proxy (publications/significance) collapse under selection pressure in science.
- In science, citation counts, h-indices, impact factors, and p-values, once tied to careers and funding, produce citation cartels, p-hacking, salami publication, and a replication crisis that is in large part a Goodhart collapse on the statistical-significance proxy.
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