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No, this is attractive but plain wrong. If you look at scientific research in Nature, there are very few papers that don't mention p-values. Successfully build
by learnstats2 9y ago
No, this is attractive but plain wrong. If you look at scientific research in Nature, there are very few papers that don't mention p-values.
Successfully building your biological proof-of-concept is lovely and remarkable but depends on a whole bunch of research done with p-values.
- Cyph0n 9y agoNo, he is not wrong. There are many fields where p-values are irrelevant. For instance, in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, you can "prove" your results by either building/fabricating a prototype or writing a piece of software.
- avian 9y agoTrue. Often authors don't even share the said piece of software or detailed plans for the prototype.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoI wonder how true that is in data science, if you're dealing with a non-deterministic algorithm. You're going to have cases for which your magic NN doesn't recognize the cat.
- learnstats2 9y agoBack to this thread to note this method of "proving" results by existence is working great for chip manufacturers right now.