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A scientific paper should not be built around a take-home message, because that invites cherry-picking and hiding the results that did not fit.
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- Stuart Ritchie Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London
This, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.
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↗Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org
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