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Kindly comments on The Universal Medical Journal Article Error - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kindly 09 April 2013 11:24:25PM 1 point [-]

I think that's a separate mistake. This paper shows Pr[data|H0] > 0.05. The standard mistake you refer to switches this to falsely conclude Pr[H0|data] > 0.05. However, neither of these is remotely indicative of H0 being true.