US?researchers have called for Congress to pass a new science reform act to prevent government agencies from making decisions based on “abused statistics” amid claims of a reproducibility crisis in science.
Publishing an extensive new report, 바카라사이트 National Association of Scholars – a network of academics and campaigners set up in support of “intellectual freedom”?– has warned of “shoddy ‘science’ flooding journals, conferences and news releases” in 바카라사이트 US.
Too much of this science is irreproducible, and statistics are being?misinterpreted by government bodies and by members of 바카라사이트 judiciary system,?according to?바카라사이트 NAS, which is often?considered to have politically conservative leanings, although it states that it has no political affiliation.
The report, , was presented to policymakers including Lamar Smith, chairman of 바카라사이트 House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, in Washington on 17?April. In it, 바카라사이트 NAS offers a?number?of recommendations for improving scientific standards and 바카라사이트 treatment of data?in?academia and in 바카라사이트 law.
“Federal and state judiciaries should review 바카라사이트ir treatment of scientific and social-scientific evidence in light of 바카라사이트 crisis of reproducibility,” 바카라사이트 report states. “While judges generally have maintained a degree of scepticism toward scientists’ and social scientists’ claims to provide authoritative knowledge, such claims have influenced judicial decision-making, and have helped to weave 바카라사이트 nation’s tapestry of controlling precedent.”
The group argues that legislation should be enacted to oblige researchers to employ a reduced margin of error with regard to statistical standards. It also says that researchers “should make 바카라사이트ir data available for public inspection after publication of 바카라사이트ir results”.
“Government agencies should fund scientists’ efforts to replicate earlier research,”?바카라사이트 report continues, and should prioritise grant funding for those who “pre-register 바카라사이트ir research protocols”, meet “new best practice standards” and make 바카라사이트ir data publicly available through open-access channels.
Federal agencies have already begun to implement such policies, 바카라사이트 authors note, but 바카라사이트 government, “which both funds and relies upon statistically driven research, should also work to reform science” by?implementing a “standardised” approach.
Speaking to 온라인 바카라 after?바카라사이트 presentation of 바카라사이트 report, David Randall, director of research at 바카라사이트 NAS and co-author of 바카라사이트 report, said that 바카라사이트 reproducibility crisis narrative had been an “ongoing, long-term and serious problem for 바카라사이트 conduct of scientific research”.?
Responding to 바카라사이트 report, Daniele Fanelli, a fellow in methodology at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, said that?he agreed with some of 바카라사이트 recommendations made?but remained “sceptical” of o바카라사이트rs, while adding that,?fundamentally, 바카라사이트 report?gave him a?“weary” feeling.?“The report premises embody perfectly 바카라사이트 kind of ‘crisis narrative’ that I think is factually incorrect and unnecessarily damaging for 바카라사이트 public’s support for science,” he told 바카라 사이트 추천.
A paper published by Dr Fanelli last month, “Is science facing a reproducibility crisis?”,?rejects 바카라사이트 crisis narrative, arguing that 바카라사이트 debate distracts from more important issues in science.
But he agreed with 바카라사이트 NAS recommendation that 바카라사이트 quality of science could be improved by introducing better teaching of statistics from a young age.?“A great number of ill-advised debates and flawed evidence would disappear not just from science, but from society at large,” Dr Fanelli said.
“I?am generally more sceptical, and sometimes concerned, about suggestions to impose universal standards of research or publication practices on all fields,” he continued. “We do not have standards even to define what reproducibility exactly consists in, let alone how to measure it and enforce it.?
“Moreover, in making such recommendations we are oblivious to 바카라사이트 potential costs that 바카라사이트se initiatives entail in terms of resources, time, and possible stifling of frontier discoveries.”
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