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There's an interesting video by Veratasium "Is Most Published Research Wrong?" (Clickbaity title to be sure.) It shows, on the overall statistics of valid/inva
by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
There's an interesting video by Veratasium "Is Most Published Research Wrong?" (Clickbaity title to be sure.)
It shows, on the overall statistics of valid/invalid vs. published/unpublished papers, the arbitrary p-value threshold is wholy inadequate to prevent a sizable fraction of published papers from being false positives (invalid but published).
https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q
- ReligiousFlames 9y agoPerhaps a more human-understandible criterion threshold for publishing would be logarithmic inverse p-value... the closer p gets to 0 (stronger correlation), the bigger log(1/p) gets. This of course is just one aspect of greater issues.
- wyager 9y agoWorth noting that the particle physics community requires five sigma of confidence to consider a claim "legitimate", which is vastly higher than almost all other fields and has saved particle physics from making mistakes several times (like with the diphoton excess in 2015).