1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud (acsh.org)

As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so. From a report: A stunning report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes that researchers often ask statisticians to make "inappropriate requests." And by "inappropriate," the authors aren't referring to accidental requests for incorrect statistical analyses; instead, they're referring to requests for unscrupulous data manipulation or even fraud. The authors surveyed 522 consulting biostatisticians and received sufficient responses from 390. Then, they constructed a table that ranks requests by level of inappropriateness. For instance, at the very top is "falsify the statistical significance to support a desired result," which is outright fraud. At the bottom is "do not show plot because it did not show as strong an effect as you had hoped," which is only slightly naughty.

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Only 1 in 4?

[HornWumpus]

1 in 4 biostatisticians...

Dollars to donuts it's much worse in the soft 'sciences'. Slightly remediated by the fact they're too stupid to realize what they were asking was wrong.

Not a shocker

[SirAstral]

1 out of 4 are asked to commit fraud.
2 our of 4 are "expected" to commit fraud without being asked.
1 out of 4 are actually trying to get at some form of truth.

Statistics are always biased by their sample sizes, and criteria.

There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics.

Re:want your next grant?

[rtb61]

Like the sugar rush animals did. Only when you look at the detail did you discover the children were under calorie controlled diets the whole time. Here is this one lolly and a pound of celery, see no sugar rush, a complete fraudulent lie and splashed all over corporate main stream media as proof eating a pound of candy does not cause a sugar rush. Not for the sick cunts who did that test because they were paid to produce advertising statistics that would kill children because greed.

Not to forget the calorie counters, ignoring human digestible calories versus calories a human can simply not digest but will burn in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Yeah the fuckers compared Almonds to a can of coke but carefully left out the block of wood because, yeah, you would realise the scam. This fuckers need to be charged with man slaughter.