How Do I Know Whether to Trust a Research Result?

A meta-analysis indicated that some areas of computer science research are subject to researcher bias. However, rather than mistrust all scientific research, researchers should examine research to determine its validity.

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 106 - 109
Main Author Shepperd, Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2015
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Bias
Computer science
Internet
Matthews correlation coefficient
Meta-analysis
Research and development
research results
researcher bias
scientific research
software defect prediction
Software engineering
Statistical analysis
statistical significance
Systematics
Validation studies
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Summary:A meta-analysis indicated that some areas of computer science research are subject to researcher bias. However, rather than mistrust all scientific research, researchers should examine research to determine its validity.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2015.8