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I've published 300+ papers with 41,177 citations.
It all started by avoiding 5 simple mistakes:
The 5 mistakes that guarantee quant paper rejection.
90% of submissions make these simple errors.
Your findings won't matter if you make them.
Each one screams amateur to reviewers.
Here's what kills quantitative papers in peer review:
1. Poor sampling destroys credibility
Convenience samples charade as representative data.
โข Justify your sample size with power analysis
โข Address selection bias explicitly
โข Report response rates honestly
Reviewers spot weak sampling immediately.
2. Missing statistical assumptions ruin analyses
You ran the test but ignored the requirements.
โข Check normality before parametric tests
โข Report homogeneity of variance
โข Address violations appropriately
Bad statistics render good research void.
3. Unclear procedures prevent replication
Your methods section reads like abstract poetry, Mr Eliot
โข Specify instruments and software versions
โข Detail every step of data collection
โข Include control group procedures
Science requires reproducibility.
4. P-hacking destroys statistical integrity
Running multiple tests until stats are significant.
โข Use appropriate multiple comparison corrections
โข Pre-register your analysis plan
โข Report all variables collected
Ethical violations can end careers. Hard no.
5. Overgeneralizing beyond your data limits
Claiming universal truths from narrow samples.
โข Acknowledge study limitations honestly
โข Suggest appropriate future directions
โข Match conclusions to actual findings
Honest reporting builds scientific credibility.
Most researchers focus on complex statistics.
Don't miss basic fundamentals.
Master the basics first, then worry about the ninja stuff.
Have you see these mistakes in your field?
We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.
We need an immediate ceasefire now.
End the indiscriminate bloodshed and the massive attacks on Gaza.
Restore the flow of humanitarian aid.
We call for the protection of civilians and health care facilities on both sides of the conflict, at all times.
@ZelenskyyUa Oppression is Oppression irrespective of religion. Ukraine is oppressed but so is Palestine.Unfortunate to hear u supporting the oppressor Israel against Palestine that's fighting for their own country when you have faced the same shit. Gain some brains.
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