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You can correlate those brain waves with anything really: predisposed to eat oranges to climb hills, likes color blue. Even infinitely small p won't save those
by arisAlexis 5y ago
You can correlate those brain waves with anything really: predisposed to eat oranges to climb hills, likes color blue. Even infinitely small p won't save those studies.
- marcosdumay 5y agoHow many constellations can you find on the data points? Running a linear correlation over them must be a practical joke.
- FranchuFranchu 5y agoI'm not knowledgeable about statistics and studies like this in general; do you mean this is a "green jelly beans cause acne" [1] situation, where you test for many hypotheses and one of them turns out to be significant? [1]: https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/
- arisAlexis 5y agoExactly, if you test many many things against each other you will always find correlations between them by chance. That's why you always need to start with a "serious" hypothesis.