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Sociology of science

the dynamic in which incentives that reward publication output select for low-power, error-prone methods even without anyone cheating.

In sociology of science, natural selection of bad science refers to the dynamic in which incentives that reward publication output select for low-power, error-prone methods even without anyone cheating. This meaning comes from Smaldino (2016) in Royal Society Open Science.[1]

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  1. Smaldino, P. E., & McElreath, R. (2016). The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science, 3(9), 160384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384

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