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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 May \ parent \ on: Replication crisis in biology: p-hacked hypothesises science
Agree that preregistered studies would go a long way
We're far from getting anything close to nuance though given how lacking statistical education is. I literally had a biology phd teach my kid that a p-value of 0.05 or below means that X causes Y 🤦🏻♂️
It's truly amazing how poorly most empirical disciplines understand empirical science.
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This is one area that I found the natural sciences surprisingly lacking in. I'm really glad for my econometrics education in that regard
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We have the most endogeneity issues to worry about, so we think about this stuff the most.
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