How Scientists Lie – Book Repository

This is the work-in-progress repo for the book How Scientists Lie by Peter M. Dahlgren.

The book is built using bookdown.

Compile website

Compile the book by opening index.rmd in RStudio and press Build Book. This will create files in a new folder called _book.

An alternative way is to run build_site.cmd (however, check the path to the RScript executable).

Directories

• includes contains misc files that are included when compiling the book.
• data contains data used in the book.
• images contains images, graphics, and figures.
• videos contains video clips used on the website.

Edit the book contents using the RMarkdown files in the root folder.

Files in the data folder

File	Description
p-hacking-false-positives.csv	Extracted data from figure 11 in Big Little Lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies
prevalence_of_qrps.csv	Average prevalence estimate of QRPs (questionable research practices) from different references
prevalence_of_term_qrp.yml	Occurence of the term "questionable research practices" in academic databases
resources.csv	Website links and screenshots used for the resources chapter

License

The book licensed under a Creative Commons license.

By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.