No, a statistical modeling assumption is not the same as a software bug. There is no perfect model, and nonparametric tests are approximations at best. The im

No, a statistical modeling assumption is not the same as a software bug. There is no perfect model, and nonparametric tests are approximations at best. The important thing is that the publication reports the modeling assumption so that readers can judge the conclusions relative to that choice. Now we know to judge results using the Gaussian model to have a high false positive rate. On the other hand, no researcher would knowingly publish results affected by software bugs, e.g. null pointers or arithmetic errors... hopefully.