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A meta-research tale. Poke Antoine de St Exupery.
... « And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked something like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. »
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. »
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly.
They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar... » ... quoted from le Petit Prince...
... « And after some work with R, Zwet and Cator succeeded in making this drawing. This was not Drawing Number One, as @eturnermd1 and others already did nice ones... but they called it Figure one. It looked something like this:
They showed their masterpiece to research funders/universities, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them...
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a boa constrictor digesting two giraffes?"
But the picture was not a picture of a boa. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, Zwet and Cantor added a title.
The funders/universities’ response, this time, was to advise them to lay aside meta-research pictures, whether with or without a title, and devote themselves instead to subgroup analyses, underpowered and non registered studies in order to increase productivity based metrics. »
