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One thing is for sure, changing alpha is not the answer! I thought the article was going to be about six sigma and Japanese theory of manufacturing. For a whil
by jmmcd 11y ago
One thing is for sure, changing alpha is not the answer!
I thought the article was going to be about six sigma and Japanese theory of manufacturing. For a while the article was going there, with a mention of changing incentives and rewarding honest criticism.
- gwern 11y agoYeah, if there's anywhere I don't want to see using six-sigma alpha, it's medicine. That's a death sentence for hundreds of millions of people, at a minimum. (Alpha is only part of the tradeoff with power and sample size; since we're not going to get sample sizes boosted into the millions for medical trials, six-sigma could only be achieved by trashing power to the point where they never reach any positive result at all.)