MichaelBishop comments on Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2009 08:22PM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 05 December 2009 09:56:06PM 0 points [-]

In modern times there is absolutely no excuse for not publishing the raw data, but that's another story.

One plausible counter-argument / limitation, is that researchers need incentives to collect data. Overall I agree with you. Here is sociologist Jeremy Freese on this issue: http://www.jeremyfreese.com/docs/freese-reproducibility-webdraft.pdf and http://www.jeremyfreese.com/docs/Freese%20-%20OpenSourceSocialScience%20-%20062807.pdf