I would venture to guess that the crappy state of science in e.g. China is just due to the weak institutions/high corruption levels in their society. If you think you can get away with dumping plastic in milk, a little data faking is the least of your problems.
That explains China and Russia/USSR, it doesn’t explain Japan and Taiwan.
Only 35% of German-language articles, compared with 62% of English-language articles, reported significant (p < 0.05) differences in the main endpoint between study and control groups (p = 0.002 by McNemar’s test)
And that’s Germans, for whom it is piss easy to learn English (compared to Russians, Chinese, or Japanese).
Why did you omit the part where a third of the sample was published in both English and German, and hence weakens the bias? (That is comparable to the overlap for Chinese & English publications.)
That explains China and Russia/USSR, it doesn’t explain Japan and Taiwan.
The study was looking at English texts, not Russian, Chinese, or Japanese texts.
edit: a study on foreign language bias in German speaking countries.
And that’s Germans, for whom it is piss easy to learn English (compared to Russians, Chinese, or Japanese).
Why did you omit the part where a third of the sample was published in both English and German, and hence weakens the bias? (That is comparable to the overlap for Chinese & English publications.)