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The best statisticians I know are economists, but they don't know how to run a study to avoid the influence of outside variables. The best experimenters I know
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
The best statisticians I know are economists, but they don't know how to run a study to avoid the influence of outside variables.
The best experimenters I know in terms of monitoring and controlling external variables are chemists, but sometimes they just use the wrong statistical test.
Biologists seem to generally be bad at both, and physicists seem to generally be good at both. I honestly think this is about the culture of the fields rather than knowledge - they all start as good scientists and just unlearn what they don't "need."