This piece is part of the StatBusters column written jointly with Andrew Gelman. Hope they fix the labeling soon. In it, we talk about two recent studies on data privacy, which leads to contradictory conclusions. How should the media report such surveys? Is the brand name of the organization enough? In addition, we debunk the notion that consumers will definitely get something valuable out of sharing their data.
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Gelman sums up the reasons why there is a crisis in experimental research in our time. The journal publication process fails to catch fake research (let alone bad research), and the new media prefer sensationalist headlines over good science. Many researchers are worrying about false positive results and research that are not reproducible.
Read it all here in our debut column Statbusters for the Daily Beast.
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