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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by make3 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:29AM (#15999663)
I'd be surprised if anyone is really arguing that the context of data is not important.
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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by whack on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:04PM (#16001075)
And yet, practices like pre-registration of hypotheses are still not widespread. If they did, it would eliminate so much of the cherry-picking of data that occurs.

https://xkcd.com/882/

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