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Publish and be wrong

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In Economic theory the winner's curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to develop an oil field. Most of the offers are likely to cluster around the true value of the resource, so the highest bidder probably paid too much.rnThe same thing may be happening in scientific publishing, according to a new analysis. With so many scientific papers chasing so few pages in the most prestigious journals, the winners could be the ones most likely to oversell themselves-to trumpet dramatic or important results that later turn out to be false. This would produce a distorted picture of scientific knowledge, with less dramatic (but more accurate) results either relegated to obscure journals or left unpublished.
机译:在经济学理论中,获胜者的诅咒指的是有人将中标者置于拍卖中可能会支付太多。例如,考虑开发油田的投标。一项新的分析显示,大多数报价可能都围绕资源的真实价值,因此出价最高的人可能支付了太多。在科学出版中,同样的事情可能正在发生。由于在最负盛名的期刊上刊登了如此多的科学论文而只追求了很少的篇幅,所以获奖者可能是最有可能自我推销的人,他们夸大了戏剧性或重要的结果,后来又证明是虚假的。这会使科学知识产生扭曲的画面,结果的戏剧性(但更准确)会降低,要么归入晦涩的期刊,要么不出版。

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    《The economist》 |2008年第8601期|117|共1页
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