Re:Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:29AM
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The author of this post isn't some rando from the internet. He's a really big name in stats. He wrote the main textbooks for a couple topics.
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Re:Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure
by knzhou on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:44AM
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No, but the post is largely a quote of a blog post (the guy who declared UC Berkeley a failure), which is in turn a followup on a different blog post.
I respect Andrew Gelman, but in this case I think he jumped to fit this into a pattern where it doesn't belong. I've looked into all the criticisms of Why We Sleep (which, again, covers hundreds of studies), and there's no p-hacking, there's no fraudulent data, there's no piles of studies retracted, and there's no crisis of replication. Literally the worst criticism is that one bar of a bar graph is removed, in a way that doesn't even change the point of the single sentence referring to it. There are simply better targets out there than sleep.
Re:Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:07PM
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> there's no p-hacking, there's no fraudulent data, there's no piles of studies retracted, and there's no crisis of replication.
I fundamentally disagree. What else is throwing away data that disagrees with your argument?