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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by learnstats2 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @08:40AM (#15999454)
No, this is attractive but plain wrong. If you look at scientific research in Nature, there are very few papers that don't mention p-values.

Successfully building your biological proof-of-concept is lovely and remarkable but depends on a whole bunch of research done with p-values.

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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by Cyph0n on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:01AM (#15999545)
No, he is not wrong. There are many fields where p-values are irrelevant.

For instance, in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, you can "prove" your results by either building/fabricating a prototype or writing a piece of software.

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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by learnstats2 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:48PM (#16075540)
Back to this thread to note this method of "proving" results by existence is working great for chip manufacturers right now.
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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by Godel_unicode on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:14PM (#16000843)
I wonder how true that is in data science, if you're dealing with a non-deterministic algorithm. You're going to have cases for which your magic NN doesn't recognize the cat.
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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by avian on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:41AM (#15999710)
True. Often authors don't even share the said piece of software or detailed plans for the prototype.
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