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The easiest way to address this is to simply move the p value necessary for significant results - instead of p < 0.05 use p < 0.001 or even p < 0.0000003 (3 x 1
by throw_away_777 10y ago
The easiest way to address this is to simply move the p value necessary for significant results - instead of p < 0.05 use p < 0.001 or even p < 0.0000003 (3 x 10^-7), as is needed in particle physics. Though the 5 sigma threshold is a bit ridiculous. Lowering the p-value threshold significantly increases the cost of hunting for positives due to random chance, at the expense of needing more sensitive experiments.
- jjoonathan 10y agoNope. It just means that you have to come up with a shittier null hypothesis. Of course, it still has to get past peer review, but this can often be accomplished by complication and obfuscation, which have the side benefit of giving you plausible deniability in case you are discovered. Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice, and science, in its present form, rewards them both.