> backs it up with physicist Robert Matthew's insights...even so - you can't get away from the math - the math is sound. It's mind-blowing how bad the mathemat

> backs it up with physicist Robert Matthew's insights...even so - you can't get away from the math - the math is sound. It's mind-blowing how bad the mathematical analysis is within the social sciences. As an undergraduate, the social science mathematics center chided me for using (standard) data-mining techniques as "fishing for results" despite having compensated for the number of parallel tests. Later I learned that social science labs run pilot studies until they see a result and run a full study. Everyone is fishing for results, they are just claiming that each cast of their line is independent. 3-sigma should be the standard and no journal should accept a p-value greater than .01.