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I don't understand HN sometimes. There is a saying in statistics: if you torture the data long enough, it will admit to anything. The point being ... if you ge
by throwaway1979 14y ago
I don't understand HN sometimes. There is a saying in statistics: if you torture the data long enough, it will admit to anything.
The point being ... if you get a statistically significant result, you're not done. Vice versa, if the data disagrees with your intuition, it doesn't necessarily mean your intuition is wrong.