Fooling Yourself is Easy

Common problems from an interesting set of slides:

• Confounding in experimental design
• Mixing up the sample labels
• Mixing up the group labels
• Incomplete documentation

"Unfortunately, we suspect, The most simple mistakes are common."

AAAS, Feb 19: pursuing reproducibility audio / slides

Things we look for:

• Data
• Provenance
• Code
• Descriptions of nonscriptable steps
• Descriptions of Planned Design, if Used