OK, this is a badly needed perspective which everyone should definitely, definitely read. I've had similar experiences as a subcontractor analysing physiological data. Those conversations can be short. "Where is my effect?" "Get in the bin."https://twitter.com/nickchk/status/991397611306303488 …
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Replying to @jamesheathers
The one I get most often is "can you add p-values to this?"
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"p=sausages" "Sausages????" "Sausages." "What does that mean?" "Look, I ran the Blumenthal comparison, and it came out with sausages" "...is that significant?" "I think sausages are very significant"
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Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers
A few weeks later. Headline says: "World in shock as scientists demonstrate that cancer causes sausages"
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Daily Mail: "SAUSAGE IMPLICATED. ENGLISH BREAKFAST UNDER ATTAKK. FOREGINERS PROBABLY TO BLAME."
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Replying to @jamesheathers
A few years later, a data thug points out that the analysis appears to be handwritten on the back of a insignificant SAS printout, and also a shopping list They are roundly ignored
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However, vis. shopping list, many researchers are still seen queuing up at deli counters around the country. Society is blamed.
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A decade on, a celebrity appears on a magazine cover cheerfully chomping down a large plate of sausages "You see, science is just now catching up to what us Amazingly Attractive People have known all along! The initial work on sausages was just nonsense funded by Big Vegetarian"
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Daily Mail chimes in: SAUSAGES GOOD FOR HEALTH, SAYS ATTRACTIVE PERSON. IS ALL SCIENCE WRONG?
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