Women in science need to learn more about how statistics work. If I published results this low in significance as tho they were real I could have 'proved' eighty different insane things by now. To explain why this is bad:https://twitter.com/EmilyKhazan/status/1323292996062842883 …
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if there's too high a probability that your correlation was just random chance. If you test a lot of things for long enough, you're absolutely gonna find lots of correlations that are just random chance! This means you have to be extra careful if you're checking a ton of these.
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But also it's extra terrible that this author reported a meaningful result when she admits it's not statistically significant! I'm physically recoiling from this idea. How are they training people in school that this is something they think is ok?
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