army1987 comments on Too good to be true - Less Wrong

24 Post author: PhilGoetz 11 July 2014 08:16PM

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Comment author: dvasya 11 July 2014 08:26:59PM 4 points [-]

Also, different studies have different statistical power, so it may not be OK to simply add up their evidence with equal weights.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 July 2014 10:32:34AM 6 points [-]

p-values are supposed to be distributed uniformly from 0 to 1 conditional on the null hypothesis being true.