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"We found the correlation to be very strong, which is the highest category statistically possible" What?
by corndoge 5y ago
"We found the correlation to be very strong, which is the highest category statistically possible"
What?
- Solstinox 5y agoI can see the Far Side Comic that never was. "Having been burned one too many times by putting lines through shotgun blasts, scientists switched to correlation categories."
- neonnoodle 5y agoDivide study results into tranches with AAA, AA, and B ratings.
- voisin 5y agoMeta analyses as collateralized bonds that let scientists argue whatever they want!
- somehnacct3757 5y agoGet a former journal reviewer to claim the tranch of B papers contains, in sum, the same amount of good science as an AAA paper. I like where this is going
- nullc 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis
- rob_c 5y agoNot exactly an n-sigma statement with the result of double blind, or look elsewhere... Disappointingly that does read a little close to "I found what I was looking for so stopped looking" which makes me want to grab the author and interrogate them over zoom into they hang up.