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> Unless we're going to start saying biology isn't real. It probably helps to recognize that statisticians caught one of the first modern biology researchers f
by jldugger 6y ago
> Unless we're going to start saying biology isn't real.
It probably helps to recognize that statisticians caught one of the first modern biology researchers fudging his numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel#Mendelian_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel#Mendelian_parado...
- lmm 6y agoExcept they didn't; they alleged that the numbers had been fudged on rather scant evidence.
- jldugger 6y agoAs I understand it, Fisher had two complaints. First, that the trifactorial data was just wildly too accurate (using a chi-squared approach). This seems to be resolved in the scientific community as an off-by-one error: if instead of 10 seeds, Gregor had used 11 on occasion, that's enough to resolve the issue. The other issue is the chi-squared analysis of Mendel's experiments in aggregate, which when pooled also too neatly fit the pattern he wanted to illustrate. And as best I know, nobody has adaquately disputed that analysis.
- lmm 6y agoThe only actual analysis I saw came up with a p-value of about 0.07, which is just a complete nothingburger. There's no explanation for that because there's nothing to explain.