Brown Sandra A, Garavan Hugh, Jernigan Terry L, Tapert Susan F, Huber Rebekah S, Lopez Daniel, Murray Traci, Dowling Gayathri, Hoffman Elizabeth A, Uddin Lucina Q
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 1 South Prospect UHC 6436, Burlington, VT 05401, United States.
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Apr;72:101466. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101466. Epub 2024 Oct 18.
This editorial focuses on the issue of data misuse which is increasingly evidenced in social media as well as some premiere scientific journals. This issue is of critical importance to open science projects in general, and ABCD in particular, given the broad array of biological, behavioral and environmental information collected on this American sample of 12.000 youth and parents. ABCD data are already widely used with over 1000 publications and twice as many citations per year as expected (relative citation index based on year, field and journal). However, the adverse consequences of misuse of data, and inaccurate interpretation of emergent findings from this precedent setting study may have profound impact on disadvantaged populations and perpetuate biases and societal injustices.
这篇社论聚焦于数据滥用问题,该问题在社交媒体以及一些顶级科学期刊中日益凸显。鉴于在这个包含1.2万名美国青少年及其父母的样本中收集了广泛的生物、行为和环境信息,这个问题对于一般的开放科学项目,尤其是ABCD项目至关重要。ABCD数据已经被广泛使用,有超过1000篇出版物,每年的引用次数是预期的两倍(基于年份、领域和期刊的相对引用指数)。然而,数据滥用的不良后果以及对这项开创先例的研究中出现的结果的错误解读,可能会对弱势群体产生深远影响,并使偏见和社会不公长期存在。