Breaking the curse on science

Open data can help us avoid inherent biases in our work, says Ayushi Sood

Better Science through Better Data writing competition winner Ayushi Sood

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Recently, an economist friend told me that “scientific inquiry is inherently cursed.” At first I was offended. But I had to agree after he elaborated further – science today suffers from something economists enigmatically call the “winner’s curse”. Continue reading