>"Unfortunately if a given field involves many people with ignorance of statistics, these problems may not be called out during the peer review process." As I

>"Unfortunately if a given field involves many people with ignorance of statistics, these problems may not be called out during the peer review process." As I said, poor understanding of statistics has been a beneficial trait in many areas of research for decades now. Universities and labs are rewarded with funding because they are able to (honestly, but incorrectly) pump out more "results" than if the researchers were properly trained. So the issue goes well beyond the problems "not being called out". The problems are institutionalized. Editors and reviewers will try to force you to commit the errors in order to publish (and hence have a career). That is what they have been trained to consider science.