For better or worse, our mind plays tricks on us: we are prone to cognitive biases and logical fallacies. These biases don’t impact how do the laundry or prepare supper, although I may convince myself that I always intended to make a galette despite having the cookbook open at the soufflé page. Unfortunately, these same biases and fallacies can wreck
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In my last two posts, I talked about my experience with errors in science. Errors are part of life, and they are part of science. Without errors we can’t learn. However, if we hide away our data, our analysis and, if relevant, our code, errors will not be noticed. They and the data and results they generate will become part
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Competition in science is ever increasing. Research funds are harder to come by and positions have increasing number of applicants. Being the first to publish a result has a disproportionately large impact on prestige and advancement. These problems were already present a decade ago when Anderson et al. (2007) published their paper entitled The perverse effects of competition on scientists’
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Scientifically Sound 