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> 2011: #DarylBem publishes his article, “Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect,” in a top journal in psychology... who kicked us all into the realization that bad work could be the rule, not the exception... the deadly combination of weak theory being supported almost entirely by statistically significant results which themselves are the product of uncontrolled researcher degrees of freedom...
@bsmall2@fedibird.com @bsmall2@mstdn.jp
#AndrewGelman

> Bertrand Russell has this great quote, “This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.” On the other hand, there’s this from George Orwell: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/06/25/another-regression-discontinuity-disaster-and/
#StatisticsClass #AndrewGelman #BertrandRussel #GeorgeOrwell