'Blind Analysis' Used In Physics Could Reduce Bias In Social And Life Sciences Papers
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 03:50
in Psychology & Sociology
A course on critical thinking has generated a new proposal to remove sources of bias in research and improve confidence in published studies. Social science research got a black eye recently when the authors of several studies were shown to have manipulated data. But the more prevalent issue in the social sciences today is not actual fraud, but subtle and usually inadvertent bias that skews the conclusions of studies and often makes them unrepeatable. read more