21/10/2015: eResearch Alliance at the Scientific Integrity and the responsible Conduct of Research DPZ Workshop

On Wednesday, 21st October 2015, a PhD workshop at the German Primate Centre on good scientific practice took place. Dr. Jens Dierkes (coordinator of the eRA) gave a talk on research data. Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer (head of Cognitive Ethnology Laboratory) held a presentation on authorships, measures of research outcome and how you should be your own most critical judge concerning your methods and your results. Among these important topics, she talked about pitfalls in the setup of experiments and their statistical analyses. These topics are at the moment heavily discussed in the scientific community as becomes clear from some current publications Prof. Fischer mentioned:

• Begley, C. Glenn, Alastair M. Buchan, und Ulrich Dirnagl. 2015. „Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility“. Nature 525 (7567): 25–27. doi:10.1038/525025a.
• Fecher, Benedikt, Sascha Friesike, und Marcel Hebing. 2015. „What drives data sharing?“ Plos One, Februar. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118053.
• Holman, Luke, Megan L. Head, Robert Lanfear, und Michael D. Jennions. 2015. „Evidence of Experimental Bias in the Life Sciences: Why We Need Blind Data Recording“. PLoS Biol 13 (7): e1002190. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002190.
• Ioannidis, John P. A. 2005. „Why Most Published Research Findings Are False“. PLoS Med 2 (8): e124. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124.
• MacCoun, Robert, und Saul Perlmutter. 2015. „Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth“. Nature 526 (7572): 187–89. doi:10.1038/526187a.

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