It’s difficult—you are basically asking for a well-calibrated bullshit detector and those mostly get calibrated by wading through a lot of bullshit and paying careful attention to it X-)
Andrew Gelman, a stats professor at Columbia, has a sideline in snickering at bad papers, so scanning his blog might give you ideas about good approaches. See e.g. this.
It’s difficult—you are basically asking for a well-calibrated bullshit detector and those mostly get calibrated by wading through a lot of bullshit and paying careful attention to it X-)
Andrew Gelman, a stats professor at Columbia, has a sideline in snickering at bad papers, so scanning his blog might give you ideas about good approaches. See e.g. this.
Thanks! I’ve bumped into Gelman’s stuff a few times. I’ll check it out.