Projektnummer

0071047

Zusammenfassung

Science is built upon reliable findings, yet many results fail to replicate. Recent simulation studies have suggested that declining quality of scientific findings is a natural by-product of scientific evaluation and reward systems. Specifically, academic competition based on proxy measures has been proposed to lead to a process of cultural evolution, in which problematic scientific practices are automatically selected, whenever they entail slight advantages in terms of proxy performance. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is to date no experimental test of these predictions....