gwern comments on Original Research on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 29 October 2012 10:50PM

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Comment author: Epiphany 30 October 2012 12:29:20AM *  1 point [-]

According to an article on PLOS Medicine, Most Published Research Findings Are False. Feynman provides an unsettling perspective on what's happened with research as well in Cargo Cult Science.

Have we done any better?

Comment author: gwern 30 October 2012 01:08:34AM 0 points [-]

Those criticisms are largely irrelevant to 3 of the 4 sections, and the 4th is more history or applied statistics than science.