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Adabenflaben
11y ago
Yeah, Freedman's paradox is definitely part of what I'm alluding to. The other aspect is that for widely studied phenomena, some groups are likely to come to wrong conclusions just due to statistical error. E.g., if 100 groups ind
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Adabenflaben
11y ago
There's more to it than just the things you mentioned, and I'd argue that it's an even bigger problem. The fact studies are adaptively chosen and performed based on the results of past studies on the same (or related) data le