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Re:50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistica... by mangodrunk on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @12:12AM (#3289175)
How would you know anything about your data without doing some statistical analysis. I'm not sure if you're saying some statistics are gathered or that any statistics are hard.
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Re:50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistica... by jessriedel on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @04:07AM (#3289673)
The distinction is between trivial and non-trivial statistics. If I test a drug which cures 90 patients out of 100, vs. a placebo that cures none, I don't need to quote a p-value. The drug works.
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