Finer tuning …

… How One Psychologist Is Tackling Human Biases in Science. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

The role of bias in science became clear to Nosek as a graduate student in psychology. “Like many graduate students, my idealism about how science works was shattered when I took research methods”, he says. “In that class, we read lots of papers that were old even then—articles from the 1950s through the 1970s—articles about publication bias, low-powered research designs, lack of replication, underreporting of methodology in published articles, lack of access to original data, and bias against null results.”