Bot crawls thousands of studies; finds concerning number of simple stats errors

7 points by oldbuzzard 9 years ago | 2 comments

kafkaesq 9 years ago |

So just like we have spell checkers, someone needs to write a plugin (for pdflatex, etc) that sanity checks your papers as you're writing them.

Houshalter 9 years ago | |

If the underlying cause is fraud, then making the tool available will only help the fraudsters cover up their mistakes.

I know they didn't talk about fraud in the article, but that was what this method was developed to detect: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/the-grim-test-a-method-for...