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How bias leads to entrenched errors
Scientific progress is derailed by two human failings: a desire for positive findings, which leads to publication bias, and a tendency to notice and remember things that agree with our current viewpoint, which affects how we cite prior literature. Either one of these alone is damaging; combined they form a toxic combination that means that many ‘established facts’ in a field are not trustworthy. I will give examples of these processes and discuss how we might overcome them.
Date:
23 September 2021, 10:00
Venue:
Venue to be announced
Speaker:
Prof Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)
Organiser:
Dr Malika Ihle (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Oxford|Berlin summer school on Open Research
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-of-the-oxfordberlin-summer-school-on-open-research-2021-tickets-164864292537
Cost:
free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Malika Ihle
