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Which why P-scores need to be proportional to some nontrivial inverse factor of the number of experiments done in the field. Are there 10000 researchers doing 2
by thechao 5y ago
Which why P-scores need to be proportional to some nontrivial inverse factor of the number of experiments done in the field. Are there 10000 researchers doing 20000 experiments per year? Take 20000, multiply by the number of years we expect an academic to do hands on work (30?); invert: you need a P-score better than 1:600000.
- pytonslange 5y agoThis! Bonferroni correction across all conducted studies/analyses. I will suggest this next time I am reviewing a paper with crazy claims and shitty statistics.
- yxwvut 5y agoI know this is mostly a joke, but what you really want is Benjamini–Hochberg correction, unless you want to prevent even a single false discovery in all of science. FDR vs FWER