Is Machine Learning and AI solving the problem of p-hacking?
1 day ago • 2 min readDoes using machine learning solve our problem of p-hacking and HARKing or do we have the same problems as with statistical tests and models? As a statistician I have been trained early on in understanding statistical tests and with that the meaning, history and problems of the p-value. Every researcher who works with data has seen a p-value and most have even printed one in their own papers. Most researchers, including statisticians, struggle understanding the p-value. Not only do we struggle...
READ POSTQuestionable Research Practices - Fraud or Incompetence?
4 months ago • 2 min readFraud and Incompetence: The scales that lead to questionable research practices. HOW TO CITE Seibold, H. (2025, April 4). Fraud or Incompetence. Heidi Seibold. https://doi.org/10.59350/rphzw-axx30 See all citable posts on Rogue Scholar Last week I listened to a talk by Leo Held on the topic “Are questionable research practices ever OK?” at the German statisticians conference DAGStat. As part of the talk he described fraud as something we cannot ignore any longer as it happens too much, but...
READ POST Markdown-based course websites
7 months ago • 2 min readNew frameworks for course websites are popping up all the time. In this post, I'll review some of them. Today I want to talk about three interesting frameworks for building course websites: Quarto, the Carpentries Workbench, and Nebula. All of them rely on the use of Markdown and are thus easy to version control, reproducible, and reusable. They’re all pretty handy when teaching software skills, as they allow incorporating code in a straight-forward way. Quarto Websites / Books Website Docs /...
READ POSTIncorporation of the Digital Research Academy
11 months ago • 2 min readI am excited to share that the Digital Research Academy incorporation is almost done. We had our notary appointment last week, set up the bank account and are now waiting for the official registration of the DRA Digital Research Academy GmbH. I published my first post about the initial idea for the Digital Research Academy in May 2023. Now, just a year and a few months later, the Digital Research Academy is becoming not only an initiative but a company. Last week Joyce Kao, Melanie Imming and...
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