Benito comments on Questions from an imaginary statistical methods exam - Less Wrong

13 Post author: RichardKennaway 04 February 2015 01:57PM

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Comment author: Benito 04 February 2015 10:29:31PM *  0 points [-]

Seconding this comment; I will just further add that

You repeated some failed experiments in the hope of getting a different result.

Is known as 'repeatability', and is normally considered virtuous to do.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 February 2015 01:32:43AM 1 point [-]

It's usually more 'virtuous' to replicate the positive (i.e. information-laden, surprising) results, while repeating negative results seems more like fishing for better p-values.