{"id":8994,"date":"2015-10-07T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:03","slug":"the-problem-with-our-data-driven-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/07\/the-problem-with-our-data-driven-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with our data-driven world\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/202230\/true-data-can-lie\/?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/normal-forrest-plan.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In many fields of research right now, scientists collect data until they see a pattern that appears statistically significant, and then they use that tightly selected data to publish a paper. Critics have come to call this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/neuroskeptic\/2015\/05\/18\/p-hacking-a-talk-and-further-thoughts\/#.VgHH0WTBzGc\">p-hacking<\/a>, and the practice uses a quiver of little methodological tricks that can inflate the statistical significance of a finding. <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1002106#pbio.1002106.ref012\">As enumerated by one research group<\/a>, the tricks can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153conducting analyses midway through experiments to decide whether to continue collecting data,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153recording many response variables and deciding which to report postanalysis,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153deciding whether to include or drop outliers postanalyses,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153excluding, combining, or splitting treatment groups postanalysis,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153including or excluding covariates postanalysis,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153and stopping data exploration if an analysis yields a significant <em>p<\/em>-value.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/202230\/true-data-can-lie\/\">The problem with our data-driven world | Fusion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this data-obsessed world, we must keep in mind the ways that data can be manipulated to fool us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1087,1113,1114,80],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-information","tag-bias","tag-data","tag-manipulation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}