Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by usgroup on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:20PM (#20898936)

I’m a Bayesian flavoured, and the “problem” IMO is that model driven statistics are really hard and beyond most scientists (people generally tbh).

If we required scientists to be good statisticians there’d be far fewer scientists.

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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by godelski on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:14PM (#20899479)

Or we'd have just as many, but better at statistics.

P hacking isn't always done on purpose. It's misunderstanding. That's probably why it still passes peer review. There's also tons of incentives that encourage this behavior. These are the problems. An arbitrary mark to meet makes people weak at statistics not understand their data as well. I'd rather more accurate data than more scientists. More workers doing poor work isn't useful.

Also, you can Bayes hack. Bayes helps, but it doesn't address the underlying issues.

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