August 19, 2019

90: Mo data mo problems

58 minutes

Dan and James discuss two listener questions on performing secondary data analysis and the potential for prestige to creep into open science reforms.

More info and links:

Why generate your own dataset when you can get a high impact paper using public data?

Thanks to Stu Murray for the question

Will people steal your ideas?

The journal Scientific Data

Are we now incentivising data mining rather than data collecting?

Synthetic data

Dan’s recent synthetic data preprint primer

Ego and prestige got us into the mess we’re trying to fix with open science, but how can we stop this from happening again?

Thanks to Robin Kok for the question, listen to our episode with him on e-health!

Did all the people who co-authored the paper to change statistical significance the default p-value threshold to .005 actually do this in subsequent papers?

Vagus nerve brain washing paper

Other links

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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Episode citation and permanent link

Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, August 19) "Mo data mo problems", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/TQ75J

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