Posted by Nadezda on October 5, 2008, at 16:44:30
In reply to Re: What SHOULD (IMO) be closely monitored » Nadezda, posted by seldomseen on October 5, 2008, at 13:09:18
One of my points about distinguishing Biederman from Nemeroff was that both of them had lied to their institutions about the money received from the companies. Since home institutions are responsible for monitoring, this was the only real check on their activities.
Second, while interpretation of data may or may not be done by the companies, the generation of data cannot be entirely distinguished from its interpretation, Often the design of a study produces the template against which the data may be interpreted or not. While the company may do the statistics, the attitudes and expectations of researchers not only shape the design of the study, but also the data collection. There's always a lot of interpretation going on during data collection, as well as after the data has been registered.
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