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It has little to do with stereotypes about social scientists hating math or misunderstanding p-values. The current system incentivizes p-hacking. Nobody wants
by SantalBlush 7y ago
It has little to do with stereotypes about social scientists hating math or misunderstanding p-values.
The current system incentivizes p-hacking. Nobody wants to throw away their work if it doesn't meet the p < 0.05 criterion, especially when their career is on the line.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoso...why are we calling this science if it doesn't meet the basics of the Scientific method?
- SkyBelow 7y agoWhile it isn't the most concrete sample size, when I was at college the mathematics requirements for the soft sciences were far inferior to the mathematics requirements for hard sciences. To the extent that even the easier statistics course in the math department wasn't require and instead was replaced by a statistics class in the social science department that was only valid for social sciences.