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Intellectual conflicts of interest
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has good practice and misconduct: Conflict of interest
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important because: There is concern that intellectual conflicts of interest may cause bias in research. The idea is that if researchers prefer one intervention over another, they will intentionally or unintentionally introduce bias into the design of the study, data analysis or data interpretation so that the results are in favor of the preferred intervention. However, there is not enough evidence on this. In psychotherapy research, it has been shown that researcher allegiance (i.e. intellectual conflicts of interest) is associated with study results: therapies with higher allegiance are shown to be more effective in randomized clinical trials.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000013-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000014-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000015-QINU`"' It is not clear, though, whether this correlation is causal. It could be that researchers have allegiance towards more effective interventions because they are effective, rather than that the interventions appear to be more effective because the researchers have an allegiance to them.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000016-QINU`"' Although some argue that the association between researcher allegiance and study results might be causal since the association exists even when there is evidence that two interventions are equally effective, the evidence remains inconclusive on how researcher allegiance/ intellectual conflicts of interest might affect study results.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000017-QINU`"' At the same time, some argue that intellectual conflicts of interest are unavoidable.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000018-QINU`"' Researchers will have a certain educational background, prior research experience, and personal and professional affiliations, which will naturally make them more likely to favor one research outcome over another.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000019-QINU`"' Not only is this unavoidable, but it is what drives science forward: researchers would not spend years researching a topic that they did not feel passionate about. It is precisely the passion and intellectual interest that researchers have th…
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is about: The term ‘intellectual conflicts of interest’ refers to the potential for a researcher to be attached to a specific point of view.'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000F-QINU`"' For instance, the researcher could be convinced that intervention A is more effective in treating a certain disease D, than intervention B even without the necessary evidence to back this view. Intellectual conflicts of interest usually occur based on the researcher’s prior research, education, institutional or other personal affiliations.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000010-QINU`"''"`UNIQ--ref-00000011-QINU`"' For instance, if the researcher has received more education about intervention A than B, they could be more likely to favor intervention A. In the field of psychotherapy, the term ‘researcher allegiance’ is used to refer to intellectual conflicts of interest. '"`UNIQ--references-00000012-QINU`"'
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