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> real effects might be weak enough that they only make it through the first time (non replicative) publication process when chance makes the effect seem strong
by forapurpose 8y ago
> real effects might be weak enough that they only make it through the first time (non replicative) publication process when chance makes the effect seem stronger than it actually is.
That's hypothetical. What actually happened was what I wrote in the GP: The effects were replicated almost every time, except sometimes they were weaker.
- your-nanny 8y agoyou miss my point. the strength of a novel main finding must be sufficient to warrant the opportunity cost of trying to get it published. a weak but real effect will be more or less strongly indicated in an experiment, just by the vagaries of the sample, but weak results typically will not get published. it is thus not surprising to me that findings might frequently be replicable but weaker than initially was found.