gwern comments on Why epidemiology will not correct itself - Less Wrong

38 Post author: gwern 11 August 2011 12:54AM

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Comment author: gwern 21 June 2015 02:47:03PM 1 point [-]

I don't follow. You mean, why does reducing false positives increase false negatives? Because Bonferroni doesn't pull any new data from anywhere, it just shifts along a tradeoff.