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I'm not sure it's a straw man, there seems to be plenty of examples of people publishing results based on p < 0.05 findings even when it wasn't justified... jus

• jamesaguilar 13y ago
  In a world where all statisticians were Bayesian, you'd still see results like this published. It would simply read differently: "We saw something that seems pretty unlikely, care to confirm?"
  • haberman 13y ago
    Perhaps, or perhaps the scientist would try to replicate the results themselves first (as the person in the article did). But even if they published them with the verbiage you mentioned, that would be a better world because reporters would be less likely to turn it into a story with a headline like "Scientists say ...". The prevalence of articles like this erode trust in science, and fill the public's head with misconceptions.