dlthomas comments on Beautiful Probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 26 October 2011 05:27:06PM 0 points [-]

My point is that if we allow researchers to follow methodology like this, they will in practice be discarding data, and we will be unaware of it - even when each individual researcher is otherwise completely honest in how they deal with the data.