Oliver touched on a few pieces of the puzzle, but at least some of the burden lies with two groups: researchers who employ questionable research methods and journalists eager to report on juicy results.
Questions on behaviours of secondary interest (questionable research practices) where too diverse to allow meaningful meta-analysis, so they were combined in broad categories for which only crude unweighted parameters were calculated.
Papers since published have continued to rely upon questionable research, however, and it is hard for researchers to identify what is the reliability of a given work.
We find that a policy that prohibitively increases the cost of 'misdemeanor' types of questionable research practices robustly decreases the overall rate of researcher misconduct, because the rate of 'felonies', such as fabrication, also decreases.
"This interference is based on inaccurate statistics and questionable research.
These dynamics, in turn, fuel questionable research practices and fragile results.
This step was taken to prevent "questionable research practices" and "sloppy science".
Worryingly, many academics admit to engaging in at least one questionable research practice in order to achieve publication.
John, L. K., Loewenstein, G. & Prelec, D. Measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling.
Until now, cases of questionable research in other countries have gotten little attention in the United States.
He understood the significance of putting the imprimatur of the nation, through public financing, behind questionable research.
