Morendil comments on Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit - Less Wrong

41 Post author: CarlShulman 07 March 2012 02:51AM

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Comment author: Morendil 03 March 2012 11:39:59AM 2 points [-]

Great post, upvoted. (And the linked article is blowing my mind.) Just one nitpick:

writing by Bem advising young psychologists to take experiments that failed to show predicted effects and massage/torture them until some statistically significant effect could be produced

That's a somewhat harsher interpretation than is found in the original article.

Comment author: CarlShulman 03 March 2012 05:01:50PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, they did not use such strong language, and the article was obviously intended to help advance the careers of young researchers in benevolent fashion, even if it was promoting a pernicious practice. I have edited that line.