This module aim is to increase environmental science students’ ability to identify common research issues that could be found both in published literature and in designing their own research project. Issues addressed here include research ethics, replication, pseudo-replication, confirmation bias, publication bias, correlation and causation, HARKing, reproducibility in research, predictive and casual models, ratios, and misinformation. The methods to avoid these issues will be also explored.
学分: 2