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ERROR is a bug bounty program for science. PIs: @maltoesermalte & @rubenarslan Chief Recommender: @ianhussey
Bern, Switzerland
Joined June 2023
Science can be self-correcting — but only if we invest in making it so. Our view on the staggering costs of undetected errors in science, and why funding error detection and correction is less expensive, published today in @Nature.
Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature, says Malte Elson
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My paper is out in @PNASNews! I replicate a paper on the impact of COVID vaccine mandates on vaccine uptake. Removing a single bad control variable sign-flips several of the paper’s headline results. The reply’s findings are also not robust. 1/x.
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Can you imagine if scientists or funders appreciated sleuths like this? . Or if we saw potential examples of misconduct as vulnerabilities in our processes that needed to be addressed?.
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🚨Replication alert🚨. I reanalyze Moretti (2021), which tests for the effect of tech cluster size on innovation. I find that the event study and instrumental variable estimates—necessary for a causal interpretation—are caused by coding errors. #EconTwitter.1/
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RT @horizonte_de: Bei @error_reviews von der @unibern gibt’s Geld, wenn man Fehler in einem Artikel findet und wenn man seinen Artikel zur….
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«Wissenschaftliches Denken entspricht äusserster Ehrlichkeit – ja sich dafür das Bein auszureissen.» Das zumindest sagte der berühmte Physiker Richard Feynman, ist aber oft Wunschdenken vor dem...
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RT @Nature: Cash for catching scientific errors 💰. The ERROR project offers researchers a bounty for spotting mistakes in published papers….
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RT @horizons_fr: Avec les @error_reviews d’@unibern, celles et ceux qui découvrent des erreurs dans un article reçoivent 250 francs, tout c….
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«La pensée scientifique correspond à l’honnêteté la plus poussée – voire à s’arracher la jambe pour cela.» C’est du moins ce que disait le célèbre physicien Richard Feynman. Mais il s’agit souvent...
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RT @horizons_en: @error_reviews at @unibern can help you earn money by finding mistakes in scientific articles. And if you submit your arti….
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“Scientific thought … corresponds to a kind of utter honesty – a kind of leaning over backwards” . This, at least, is the opinion of the prominent physicist Richard Feynman, though it’s often a...
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RT @riotscienceclub: 🚨 New Video Alert! 🚨. Watch @ianhussey take us through the exciting developments in error detection, featuring @error….
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Challenge accepted. Here are a few comments on the paper after starting to wade through its massive content. The paper in question is 1/🧵.
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This is the first of many forthcoming in our suite of tools to make error detection easier for authors and reviewers!.
New: use GRIM or GRIMMER to test reported statistics for consistency. Are these values even possible? Find out with the error detection webapp!. Test many values at once, get summary statistics, and download your results. 🧵 1/5.
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RT @EikoFried: What are the best papers or blog posts you know on difficulties of correcting the scientific record in psychology? Want to w….
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New Data Colada post. Harvard's Gino Report allows us to re-construct what Harvard says is one of Gino's "original" data sets. We can compare that to the posted data to see how the data were altered
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RT @riotscienceclub: ⭐️Open Research Summer School ⭐️ . Rounding off a whole day on error detection, @ianhussey will be talking about @erro….
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