PhilGoetz comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong
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Well... different ranking outcomes (different sides of the coin) are possible. Just that the interpretation will always be "don't reject the null hypothesis" but yeah. :)
Either way, my overall reaction to your post is "yuck" (not your post itself! That I upvoted. I mean the whole situation... That a relatively standard statistical test could allow this sort of madness. I mean, I know frequentist stats isn't the Bayesian way, but that relatively standard methods in it can be this pathological does not at all give me warm fuzzies)
It's not the fault of the method if someone abuses it.
In general, no. However, if a method is more easily abused than others, that that is something worth pointing out.