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Re:Science Isn’t Broken by unabst on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:32PM (#10089227)
> To sum up: when you have people who have no idea what they're doing do statistics, they will do it badly.

Or rather, when you have people who have a good idea what they're doing, they will do a good job of getting the results they were looking for. And maybe that is why statistics are so popular in political debates.

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Re:Science Isn’t Broken by thinkmoore on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:46PM (#10089275)
In the realm of science, I think it is far more likely that researchers don't realize why what they're doing isn't a good idea. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately attributed to stupidity." Not that I think researchers are stupid. It's just very hard and very complicated.
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