Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

63 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2007 03:46AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 December 2012 02:20:00AM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't. Two studies opens the door to publication bias concerns

Agreed. It's much easier for a false effect to garner two 'statistically significant' studies with p < .05 than to gain one statistically significant study with p < .005 (though you really want p < .0001).