Manfred comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 December 2010 10:18:10PM 5 points [-]

This raises the question: Should scientific journals adjust the p-value that they require from an experiment, to be no larger than the probability (found empirically) that a peer-reviewed article contains a factual, logical, methodological, experimental, or typographical error?

Comment author: Manfred 17 December 2010 10:29:58PM 6 points [-]

The meta-science part would change with time, e.g. how many people read the article and found no mistakes. Doesn't seem to mix well with a fixed result.

Maybe some separate, online thing that just reported on the probability of claims could handle the meta-science.