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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by Fomite on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:03AM (#18369098)
One of the things I make my students do is to try and design projects so that a myriad of answers are all potentially interesting, such that the likelihood of getting a result is high, but the particulars of the research are responsible for what that result is.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by danieltillett on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:37AM (#18369400)
Yes I used to do something similar. All my students had two projects - one was high risk, but if it succeeded glory, the other boring, but no matter the result, publishable.
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