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It has been asked whether science yields "better or more accurate answers" than other approaches. We know that most published scientific research results are w
by droithomme 14y ago
It has been asked whether science yields "better or more accurate answers" than other approaches.
We know that most published scientific research results are wrong.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
Therefore flipping a coin and always guessing "heads" yields more accurate results than science.
Now what? Has this insight taught us anything?
- thirdtruck 14y agoAnd how did that research come to the conclusion that most research comes out wrong? Statistically-rigorous research. Second: it remains a question of degree. Most preliminary medical research, for example, suffers from heavy biases, but it remains far more predictive than the "alternative medicine" beliefs that are more than 90% incorrect.
- return0 14y agoThat's a sweeping over-generalization. More like "many inferences based on statistics are not as strong as they appear to be many are not even true". That article is important (and well known) for a certain type of life sciences publications; it's a problem that is being addressed already. That's another good thing about science, you can measure how wrong you are.