Eliezer_Yudkowsky 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: RichardKennaway 05 December 2009 10:49:25PM 6 points [-]

These seem relevant:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/false-findings.html

"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" I don't think he gives a figure of 2/3, but he does say: "It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false."

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2009 11:31:10PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. Since I can't find the original reference (if, indeed, it ever existed outside my imagination) these will do equally well to illustrate the point.