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That's a great article. Scott Alexander is always worth a read. I especially love this bit: > Two experimenters in the same laboratory, using the same apparat
by dkbrk 9y ago
That's a great article. Scott Alexander is always worth a read.
I especially love this bit:
> Two experimenters in the same laboratory, using the same apparatus, having no contact with the subjects except to introduce themselves and flip a few switches – and whether one or the other was there that day completely altered the result. For a good time, watch the gymnastics they have to do to in the paper to make this sound sufficiently sensical to even get published. This is the only journal article I’ve ever read where, in the part of the Discussion section where you’re supposed to propose possible reasons for your findings, both authors suggest maybe their co-author hacked into the computer and altered the results.