private_messaging comments on Too good to be true - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: private_messaging 21 July 2014 10:21:01PM *  2 points [-]

Which way do you think publication bias on the issue goes, anyway?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 20 September 2016 03:01:10PM 0 points [-]

I wrote a paragraph on that in the post. I predicted a publication bias in favor of positive results, assuming the community is not biased on the particular issue of vaccines & autism. This prediction is probably wrong, but that hypothesis (lack of bias) is what I was testing.