Over-optimism in bioinformatics research
Over-optimism in bioinformatics research
The problem of ā€¯false research findingsā€¯ in medical research has focused much attention in the last few years (Ioannidis, 2005). One of the main problems, termed as ā€¯fishing for significanceā€¯ in the present letter, is that researchers often (consciously or subconsciously) report results that are in fact the product of ā€¦