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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by reubens on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:25PM (#20967709)
Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

I agree that the focus on this metric negatively influences research outcomes, which extends to university structuring, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how this extends to abuse of knowledge in general.

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by pathseeker on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:23PM (#20968015)
> Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

A nice way of saying "lying". Learning how to game the statistics (e.g. publish the 20th experiment that showed significance but fail to mention the other 19).

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by mehrdadn on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:30PM (#20968756)
I think by knowledge they meant information asymmetry.
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