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> I don't know how many ways they carved up the data before they found a segment of the population with increased suicide rate at the right time. and they stil
by sigstoat 7y ago
> I don't know how many ways they carved up the data before they found a segment of the population with increased suicide rate at the right time.
and they still reported 9 different categorizations (overall/male/female * 3 age groups), and could only find one with a change. it isn't clear to me if they corrected for the multiple comparisons they did report.
- ggreer 7y agoRight, but that doesn't tell me how many other ways they carved the data up and didn't report it in the paper. Maybe they initially chose different age groups (10-22, 23-50, >50) and found no effect. Then they tweaked the categories and tada, controversial paper!
- sigstoat 7y ago> Right, but that doesn't tell me how many other ways they carved the data up and didn't report it in the paper. i understand that and i don't believe i contradicted you, rather i was emphasizing: they _admitted_ to 9 different carvings and only got 1 interesting one. what they did under the hood had to be even worse!