What do you mean by 'unnoticed assumptions'?
I think statistical assumptions are well known.
If they come up with a simple univariate linear model, you know there are the Gauss-Markov assumptions and the linearity assumption. And there are also ways to check if the assumptions are correct or not; and if not, there are corrections.
I agree with the post and there are two reasons for bad statistics: being lazy/dumb and money.
Here in Belgium, research facilities (from a university) are paid on certain grounds.
One of them is the number of publications in your facililty: the more publications, the more money.
They feel the pressure and it's obvious that the quality of research is going down.
There are some journals which aren't very attentive to the statistics, so they publish what other journals wouldn't.
But more and more researchers are seeing what is happening, so in the next five or ten years, I think it's going to change.
There is an equilibrium and soon, it will turn over to the other side.
Research will be scientific again, if they figure out a way how to fund researchers appropriate
(I am only speaking for psychology, I don't know anything about other domains.)
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What do you mean by 'unnoticed assumptions'?
I think statistical assumptions are well known.
If they come up with a simple univariate linear model, you know there are the Gauss-Markov assumptions and the linearity assumption.
And there are also ways to check if the assumptions are correct or not; and if not, there are corrections.
I agree with the post and there are two reasons for bad statistics: being lazy/dumb and money.
Here in Belgium, research facilities (from a university) are paid on certain grounds.
One of them is the number of publications in your facililty: the more publications, the more money.
They feel the pressure and it's obvious that the quality of research is going down.
There are some journals which aren't very attentive to the statistics, so they publish what other journals wouldn't.
But more and more researchers are seeing what is happening, so in the next five or ten years, I think it's going to change.
There is an equilibrium and soon, it will turn over to the other side.
Research will be scientific again, if they figure out a way how to fund researchers appropriate
(I am only speaking for psychology, I don't know anything about other domains.)