Discussion: Difficulties in making inferences about scientific truth from distributions of published p-values?

摘要

There has been much unease in recent years about our current default system of evaluating and reporting experiments and observational studies. The profusion of dubious and unreplicated claims in subfields ranging from social psychology to brain imaging to medicine has led many observers including ourselves to feel that the scientific publication system is failing. Four flashpoints of this ongoing conversation have been the following