Bad Research

 


Some research is just bad. I've tried calling it "poor". I've tried calling it "worthy of grace". But it's just plain bad. Mostly, the methods are bad. I also see bad conclusions, bad data, and bad data analysis.

On this page, I'm linking to my posts where I call out bad research. This will all be published research and some of it is very famous.

Get your popcorn, sit back, and prepare for some guilty pleasures, I mean...righteous indignation.

Because this stuff is just bad.


Virtual Reality for Soft Skills? Maybe 

Analysis of “The effectiveness of virtual reality soft skills training in the enterprise: a study” by Andrea Mower. PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC], 2020. 21 Aug 2021. 

Spoiler: mostly bad but one positive - they estimated how many users had to use VR training for VR to be worth the price of development. Answer: 3,000.




"What Happened When Student Brains -- on VR -- Were Scanned"​ is Analyzed

Analysis of What Happened when student brains on VR were scanned posted on Medium and some of the associated publications that went along with this scanning...ahem...scam.


 
 
 
 
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