Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (2016)

Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by jjoonathan on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:23PM (#24413592)

Yeah, sounds like p-hacking.

Still, supporting a proper army is a massive economic undertaking, so it seems likely that army sizes (and battle sizes) started relatively small and grew over time. Maybe this new finding actually does suggest that scale-up happened earlier than most previous legitimate estimates.

My money's on p-hacking though.

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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by smabie on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:44PM (#24414951)

P-hacking what?

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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by jjoonathan on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:07PM (#24435516)

If p is the probability of the null hypothesis and you want a low p value to promote your alternative hypothesis, you can obtain the low p value by choosing a garbage null hypothesis like "prehistoric civilizations lived in peaceful harmony with each other." Just about any other theory looks brilliant next to such hot garbage.

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