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Saturday, 20 January 2018

The scientific method gone badly wrong


Pretty much. Needs stuff about popularity and highly funded grants.

I need scarcely remind readers that I do not think this indicates anything whatsoever about how common this is in practise.
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  1. Dan Weese20 January 2018 at 11:26

    Also something about p-values.

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  2. Shaun Griffith20 January 2018 at 12:39

    And grant proposals to study the effectiveness of different grant proposal workflows.

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  3. James Garry21 January 2018 at 00:37

    I particularly like how there are no loops back once you hit the ''computer model' stage.

    "Sure our model's probably wrong and has a ton of bugs! Let's get that poster cranked out and then think about a paper!"

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