Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance
by everdev on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:13PM
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> "Lazy reader" is precisely the audience for scientific papers
Exactly.
There are plenty of personalities and pundits that love to say "look at the data" or "the data is clear".
It bugs me when data is weaponized as truth to prove a conjecture, especially in the social sciences where studies are routinely difficult to replicate with consistent results.
Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance
by MRD85 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:42AM
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It's not just misunderstanding papers, the entire social science field is in a replication crisis. A lot of people don't really want objective science and would rather push their agenda. Either that or they're simply incompetent.
That's the gist of the crisis science has been having of late: The popular meme for a long time was that it was just non-scientists who would misinterpret the research. Recently, it has become clear that misinterpreting papers also rampant among trained scientists, to the extent that entire fields are being shown to be houses of cards.