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  2. Misinformation - Wikipedia

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    A research study of Facebook found that misinformation was more likely to be clicked on than factual information. [151] The most common reasons that Facebook users were sharing misinformation for socially-motivated reasons, rather than taking the information seriously.

  3. Research design - Wikipedia

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    A strong research design yields valid answers to research questions while weak designs yield unreliable, imprecise or irrelevant answers. [ 1 ] Incorporated in the design of a research study will depend on the standpoint of the researcher over their beliefs in the nature of knowledge (see epistemology ) and reality (see ontology ), often shaped ...

  4. Descriptive research - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive science is a category of science that involves descriptive research; that is, observing, recording, describing, and classifying phenomena.Descriptive research is sometimes contrasted with hypothesis-driven research, which is focused on testing a particular hypothesis by means of experimentation.

  5. Invalid science - Wikipedia

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    In general studies with more repetitions that run the experiment more times on more subjects have greater power. A power of 0.8 means that of ten true hypotheses tested, the effects of two are missed. Ioannidis found that in neuroscience the typical statistical power is 0.21; another study found that psychology studies average 0.35. [2]

  6. Pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Quality of research has been poor, and drugs have been launched without any rigorous pharmacological studies and meaningful clinical trials on Ayurveda or other alternative healthcare systems. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] There is no credible efficacy or scientific basis of any of these forms of treatment.

  7. This study is observational in nature, with self-reported data. Sometimes, humans can be incredibly unreliable when self-reporting data. That means the findings can suggest results but cannot ...

  8. Scientific study - Wikipedia

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    Scientific study is a creative action to increase knowledge by systematically collecting, interpreting, and evaluating data. According to the hypothetico-deductive paradigm, it should encompass: [1] The contextualization of the problem; A hypothesis for explaining the problem considering existing theoretical approaches;

  9. Circular reporting - Wikipedia

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    Author Alex Haley grew up hearing the oral history that his family's first ancestor to enter the United States was a young man named Kunta Kinte, who lived near the Kamby Bolongo, or Gambia River, and was kidnapped into slavery when out gathering wood.