Researchers find researchers overestimate soft-science results—US the worst offender
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Researchers have found that authors of "soft science" research papers tend to overstate results more often than researchers in other fields. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Daniele Fanelli and John Ioannidis write that the worst offenders are in the United States.