Marathon finishing times. I love the spikes around “pretty” times (3:00, 3:30, 4:00, etc). Shows you how much of human achievement is about setting goals.pic.twitter.com/VEOjvbkgfC
And with a rare cynical take from me, there's sometimes a flipside to goal-setting behavior. I present the histogram of p-values in papers submitted to a journal. Guess where the the strange spike (and dip) is. Not sure nature sets goals like this. http://crookedtimber.org/2006/09/19/attractive-models/ …pic.twitter.com/e3lAwKnwtd
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Distribution of high school exit exam scores in Poland. Guess the minimum passing score.pic.twitter.com/RArJv3cvaS
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Is that a real graph? Source?
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Was just thinking about this. The pressure to publish is enormous and a good p-value can be the difference between tenure and no tenure. This is neither an ethical nor a sustainable incentive scheme.
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Hopefully this histogram isn't affected by the same phenomenon
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