Manfred comments on Link: "When Science Goes Psychic" - Less Wrong
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One lesson of the common misuse of statistics is to not "defy the data" until you're sure what it says.
Here's an important reply cited in the other threads:
http://www.ruudwetzels.com//articles/Wagenmakersetal_subm.pdf
I read the NYT link yesterday or something, and IIRC, they mention somewhere that the statisticians had already found major flaws - like that. I'm a little surprised anyone feels a need to 'defy the data'.