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Where'd you read that? Genuine question
by culi 9mo ago
Where'd you read that? Genuine question
- cyanydeez 9mo agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/article/history-of-science-through-the-prism-of-race/D041D3BDF1CAE769C11A2CED4694DD23 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/article/... Racists work really hard to crunch the numbers. Do you think its a new phenomenon?
- culi 9mo agoNo, I'm well aware of the eugenics origins of much the current field of statistics (and even the racial etymologies of terms like "regression to the mean"). In fact, I'd say most of our social sciences were originally primarily concerned with eugenics But the claim that the practice of p-hacking itself has such a specific history seems dubious and I don't quite see how your source backs that up—interesting though it is
- cyanydeez 9mo agoSure, they wouldnt tell you they invented p-hacking.