Cyan comments on The Statistician's Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 10 December 2013 05:00:04PM 5 points [-]

Call it the statistician's fallacy: thinking that finding a mistake in the statistics is sufficient grounds to dismiss a finding.

I love it. (I'm a statistician by trade.)

A field taken as a whole usually musters multiple lines of evidence.