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- Feed Preview Comments on: Too Linear To Be True: The curious case of Jens Forster
By: jrc
New Stuff - a report looking at "super linearity" in more Jens Forster articles: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Lm6NdvGIQbamlhVlpESmQwZTA/view I maintain that coding "low" as "-1", "medium" a...
By: Thom
Sara: "I did not know that. It does make me wonder, if someone would deliberately tweak an existing data set, wouldn’t he or she try to monitor the resulting data for non-random patterns and be...
By: Fernando
In reply to Thom. PS In above I assume effect of X on Y is monotonic and, whe...
By: Thom
This is a reply to jrc above. The analysis of Forster's data is really a variant on the Simonsohn-style anomaly detection. The idea is always to look for properties that real data from the contex...
By: Fernando
In reply to Thom. @jrc Here is how I picture your argument (caveat, not havin...
By: Andrew
In reply to Thom. "I should just let this go" . . . that attitude is contrary...
By: Anonymous
In reply to Thom. "All the studies have the same n with no missing data" Why ...
By: b
In reply to zbicyclist. Yes, I think the authors realize that the graphs were...
By: Sara
For me this blogpost by Neuroskeptic made a lot of sense: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/05/28/explaining-jens-data/#.U6rPMo2Swah It concludes that fabrication of the data is...
By: Dan Wright
In reply to question. Just echoing question's recommendation and saying lots ...
By: zbicyclist
In reply to b. Yes, that's a weak argument. It's possible that there were oth...
By: question
In reply to Shravan Vasishth. My assessment is that intelligent people with i...
By: Shravan Vasishth
In reply to question. So what does this entail? It seems to me to be a near ...
By: question
In reply to Shravan Vasishth. My post below was meant as a response to this p...
By: question
"In this fashion a zealous and clever investigator can slowly wend his way through a tenuous nomological net-work, performing a long series of related experiments which appear to the uncritical r...
By: Shravan Vasishth
Watching all these guys' careers crash and burn makes me think that we should be explicitly teaching our students not to stand for any one thing. If you end up in a position where you have to "ta...
By: question
In reply to jrc. JRC, If I understand you correctly I think we are in agreeme...
By: question
In reply to Mayo. Mayo, I would appreciate it if you provided opinion on my p...
By: Mayo
Here's a pic of Forster and a fair amount of material on the fraud busting w/ links: http://errorstatistics.com/2014/05/10/who-ya-gonna-call-for-statistical-fraudbusting-r-a-fisher-p-values-and-e...
By: John
It appears that a number of people need to look up what the word bully means.
By: Fernando
In reply to Phil. Phil, I don't understand. _Conditional_ on Nature not doing...
By: question
In reply to jrc. JRC, It is the only way to interpret thier figure 3, which s...
By: question
In reply to jrc. JRC, Read it closer. They took examples from the literature ...
By: jrc
Low = -1 ; Medium = 0; High=1. I get that M should be between L/H in theory - but honestly, I can't believe that M falls between L/H for ALL the papers they look at, including the controls. That ...
By: Martin
In reply to question. Ah, OK. Yes, I agree that looking for another explanati...
By: question
In reply to Martin. Martin, Sorry for the confusion. I gathered your intent. ...
By: b
That report AG cites keeps harping on the fact that the sex distribution of the sample (slightly more women) does not exactly match the sex distribution of psychology students (72% women). But wh...
By: Martin
In reply to question. question, My "criticim" wasn't aimed at the substabce o...
By: question
In reply to Martin. Martin, Look at their figure 2. It appears 3/16 (Lerouge_...
By: jrkrideau
In reply to Rahul. I was once wildly impressed with an r = 1.0 until I realis...