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Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons, and Uri Simonsohn are professors who together publish the Data Colada blog.

Professor Uri Simonsohn wasn't mentioned in this particular article, but he could have been.

That requires other considerations, including ones that Simonsohn is negative about in this article.

I think this is a point Simonsohn made when critiquing your papers, although I didn't follow the discussion after that.

In related news, Uri Simonsohn posted his paper on statistical detection of data fabrication on the Social Science Research Network site on July 22, 2012 (draft dated 7/21).

Simmons, Nelson and Simonsohn / Gelman et al.

And I think Hacker News readers who have thought deeply about statistics will be delighted by the sense of humor while making pointed remarks about experimental methods that you can find in the papers of Simonsohn and his colleagues.

>Facing that alarming state of affairs, defenders of Nelson, Simmons, and Simonsohn have put together a GoFundMe to help the researchers raise the conceivably hundreds of thousands of dollars that will be needed to defend themselves in court.

The tragedy of the ordeal is that she tried and was lined up against the wall regardless, mostly due to lack of civility and poor communication: > But the email that Simmons and Simonsohn had sent was, in fact, ambiguous: They had explicitly told her to drop the P-curve and yet left the impression that the paper was otherwise sound.

Click Menu -> About -> "The authors: Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson and Joe Simmons." They're not hiding it to any extent.

'P-hacking,' says Simonsohn, 'is trying multiple things until you get the desired result' — even unconsciously." Simonsohn, has a whole website about "p-hacking" and how to detect it.

Gelman also comments favorably in his blog post about the work of Uri Simonsohn and his colleagues, who have devoted much thought to the issue of "p-hacking." Simonsohn is a professor of psychology with a better than average understanding of statistics.

( "When it comes to stats, this guy makes Satoshi Kanazawa look like Uri Simonsohn.

Another helpful researcher on statistical tests to verify results is Uri Simonsohn.

Not only are Simonsohn's papers a good lesson in how to use statistics to detect sloppy research practices, they are also often laugh-out-loud funny.

For example, Simonsohn's conclusion says: > To use Bayes factors to test hypotheses: you need to be OK with the following two things: > 1.