Biases in ecological research: attitudes of scientists and ways of control.

ABSTRACT: The properties of the human mind affect the quality of scientific knowledge through the insertion of unconscious biases during the research process. These biases frequently cause overestimation of the effects under study, thereby violating the reproducibility of the research and potentially leading to incorrect conclusions in subsequent research syntheses. We explored the level of knowledge about biases and attitudes to this problem by analysing 308 responses of ecology scientists to a specifically developed survey. We show that knowledge about biases and attitude towards biases depend on the scientist's career stage, gender and affiliation country. Early career scientists are more concerned about biases, know more about measures to avoid biases, and twice more frequently have learned abou

SUBMITTER: Zvereva EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7794457 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature