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Just add a statistician to review every single paper in every field for statistical error before publication. Every journal that doesn't do this should be deeme
by username90 5y ago
Just add a statistician to review every single paper in every field for statistical error before publication. Every journal that doesn't do this should be deemed unscientific and lose all its status.
Of course this wont happen since many "scientists" got to their current position by publishing non-results using bad statistical methods.
And no, this wouldn't be too expensive at all. Is it really too expensive to check that our record of human knowledge is correct? It wouldn't cost more than a couple of hundred dollars per paper, basically nothing compared to writing the paper.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoYes, it's a tough nut to crack because so many of the people in power now are incompetent frauds. They're not stupid, though, which makes it harder... Change is happening, but slowly. I think what's going on is you can get social points by condescending to peers who don't do the causal inference well. I mean...you can be demonstrably right. The proportion of people who can see what you mean and then correctly attribute the points to you is growing.