Unlucky Number 13? Manipulating Evidence Subject to Snooping

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI:10.1111/insr.12488

Uwe Hassler, Marc-Oliver Pohle

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Questionable research practices have generated considerable recent interest throughout and beyond the scientific community. We subsume such practices involving secret data snooping that influences subsequent statistical inference under the term MESSing (manipulating evidence subject to snooping) and discuss, illustrate and quantify the possibly dramatic effects of several forms of MESSing using an empirical and a simple theoretical example. The empirical example uses numbers from the most popular German lottery, which seem to suggest that 13 is an unlucky number.

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不吉利的数字13?操纵证据容易被窥探

最近，有问题的研究实践在科学界内外引起了相当大的兴趣。我们将涉及影响后续统计推断的秘密数据窥探的此类做法纳入术语MESSing(操纵受窥探的证据)，并使用经验和简单的理论示例讨论，说明和量化几种形式的MESSing可能产生的戏剧性影响。这个实证例子使用了最受欢迎的德国彩票中的数字，这些数字似乎表明13是一个不吉利的数字。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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