The CPP repudiated Old China back in the day. Now they want to embrace Old China because it gives the CPP legitimacy. So the world turns.
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Chinese archaeologists are striking out along the Silk Road
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#12The CPP repudiated Old China back in the day. Now they want to embrace Old China because it gives the CPP legitimacy. So the world turns.
It makes sense because Old China was guilty of putting them in that situation. Even Older China was the richest country in the world for many centuries tho.
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#13If your goal in research is to p-hack your way to a conclusion, you will always succeed.
P-hack?
In statistics, the p-value is shorthand for “how unlikely was this result.” Smaller p-values indicate less likely results, which in turn creates evidence of a relationship between variables. Many naive approaches to statically analysis place an almost magical value on the 5% threshold, but that’s not actually a rare event if you run dozens of tests. P-hacking generally refers to running tests and discarding the values that do not support what you want to be true. It’s a big problem in academia.
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#14Yes, sometimes research is funded due to political motivations. The researchers could discover and publish interesting historical facts anyway. Hopefully they will still be able to do good work? It’s good that someone funds it, even if their motives aren’t pure.
It’s unlikely that this is really going to move the needle as far as rivalry between China and other countries goes; it’s more of a side effect of that rivalry, like national museums, the Olympics, and moon landings.
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#15The myth of China being China for millenia is such a propagandist rewrite of history in that region; I hate to see NYT headlines fall for it.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
P-hack?
In statistics, the p-value is shorthand for “how unlikely was this result.” Smaller p-values indicate less likely results, which in turn creates evidence of a relationship between variables. Many naive approaches to statically analysis place an almost magical value on the 5% threshold, but that’s not actually a rare event if you run dozens of tests. P-hacking generally refers to running tests and discarding the value…
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#17The myth of China being China for millenia is such a propagandist rewrite of history in that region; I hate to see NYT headlines fall for it.
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#18If your goal in research is to p-hack your way to a conclusion, you will always succeed.
I’m wondering how often p-values are even used in papers about archeological digs? It seems like historical arguments are often made without doing statistics at all?
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