maybe it was a mistake to replace people thinking carefully about things with significance tests
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like im sorry but there is nothing to be salvaged here entire fields need to be purged we have probably lost a century of genuine work to this garbage once you count the time needed for reconstruction
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normies i have met even unusually thoughtful ones are resistant to the idea that Science is mostly garbage now people just need to Know for Sure, people like their priests who have explanations for everything not much to be done about this were just gonna languish
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Yes, but even if it wasn't broken you'd expect a serious demarcation just due to the file drawer effect. If only "significant" papers get published, as the ratio of attempts to potential true finds increases the ratio of false positives would also go up
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Basically we have too much science, send them all back to the salt mines
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hmmm the graph can be explained by lots of publication bias and no p hacking in that case we've thrown out some quite useful results due to an arbitrary heuristic but doesn't yet turn this all into nonsense
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consequences being that meta reviews or meta papers are more or less useless
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