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> Uncritical usage of these techniques is the #1 reason behind the replication crisis in science. Do you have any evidence for this? My gut feeling is represen
by gubbrora 8y ago
> Uncritical usage of these techniques is the #1 reason behind the replication crisis in science.
Do you have any evidence for this? My gut feeling is representativeness is a much bigger problem. Like you do a study on people of the same age race class during the same zeitgeist and then generalize to an eternal law.
The next year fashion has changed and the replication comes out all different.
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- lenticular 8y agoRepresentiveness is an issue, but I think the most important are the multiple comparisons problem and the base-rate fallacy. It's commonly the case that a P<0.05 positive result has more than a 50% chance of being wrong. The replication studies I've seen mainly point to these factors being the issue. The fundamental thread is neglect of prior information.