The inimitable Ben Goldacre has ferreted out a useful early example of a discussion of publication bias. Fifty years on and my impression is that things are not greatly improved in some disciplines. Add publication bias to the belief on the part of some editors of sociology journals that their organs are part of the entertainment business and you have the perfect recipe for the reproduction of blah blah.
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What I’ve been reading
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1. Constance Reid, Hilbert. We should all be reading more mathematics
these days, right? Because the field is “on fire.” Hilbert is not a bad
place to...
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