The Bias That Ruins So Much Science

The Bias That Ruins So Much Science
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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These past years have provided a tremendous education in the ways that seemingly rigorous science can actually be highly misleading. Much of the problem traces to a simple idea: selection bias. Once you understand it, much of what we think we know about what is true, along with many studies showing it to be true, melt away.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]