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The article omits the problem number one here: it is the most surprising results that get the most attention and among the most surprising many would be false.
by zby 7y ago
The article omits the problem number one here: it is the most surprising results that get the most attention and among the most surprising many would be false. Extraordinary claims get extraordinary attention and this is not cancelled out by the requirement of extraordinary evidence.
- Tarq0n 7y agoNot quite. It's a fact of statistics that sometimes you'll sample extraordinary evidence for a hypothesis that's false. Check out this paper for some examples: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/PPS551642_REV2.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/PPS5....