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> Statistically You got anything to back up that claim? That sounds like a pretty big conclusion that you're jumping to without evidence.
by gizmo385 8y ago
> Statistically
You got anything to back up that claim? That sounds like a pretty big conclusion that you're jumping to without evidence.
- timr 8y ago"You got anything to back up that claim? That sounds like a pretty big conclusion that you're jumping to without evidence." It's not a "claim". It's literally the null hypothesis: two traits are assumed to be uncorrelated unless proven otherwise. If you want to claim that a sense of "impostor syndrome" is actually indicative of increased skill, it's your job to prove it.
- smogcutter 8y agoNext you'll come for our precious Dunning-Kruger effect! If my sense of incompetence doesn't mean that I'm actually a big brainy boy, what've I got left?
- timr 8y agoYou can always attack science. If the statistics don't work in your favor, just claim replication crisis.
- tanderson92 8y agoIt's also not true that because only two outcomes are possible that the null hypothesis is a 50/50 split between them.
- timr 8y agoThere are more than two outcomes. Competence is not binary. Also, again: null hypothesis. If you want to argue that there's a positive correlation between X & Y, you provide evidence.
- timr 8y ago"You got anything to back up that claim? That sounds like a pretty big conclusion that you're jumping to without evidence." It's not a "claim". It's literally the null hypothesis: two traits are assumed to be uncorrelated unless proven otherwise. If you want to claim that a sense of "impostor syndrome" is actually indicative of increased skill, it's your job to prove it.