Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
by ben_w on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:46AM
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By “do your own research”, do you mean “repeat a statistically significant number of the various studies to find out how repeatable the results are”, or do you mean “read a book which convinced me”?
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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
by menckenjr on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:50AM
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There's a third option - "do a meta-analysis of representative studies to determine true effect size".
I counted that as “repeat”, given that’s part of how this problem was first discovered.
On reflection though, that only works when you know roughly how many negative results get published: part of the problem with unreproducable results is that negatives have been difficult to publish, biasing publications so that entirely competent and honest mistakes are much more common than one would expect from just the p-value.