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It's ironic the author starts off saying they need to get more rigorous in their science and statistics. Then goes on to write a relatively short and not very r
by qwrusz 10y ago
It's ironic the author starts off saying they need to get more rigorous in their science and statistics. Then goes on to write a relatively short and not very rigorous overview of Bayesian statistics.
Statistics and probability are difficult subjects. They are also not intuitive subjects for many people.
Besides the publish or perish thing, I would guess many authors of these unreliable/non-replicable biomedicine papers were focused on biomedicine during grad school - while they learned statistics it was a secondary subject.
A solution seems to be more statistics training for academics doing studies or requiring a trained statistician on the team/reviewing a study prior to publication. I don't see either happening to be honest, and this problem will likely continue.