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Scouring trade route history is a two-edged sword: which way did influence run? I’m sure ideological archeology can solve that though. That path also has a lot of history.
A short, memorable, oxymoronic, and yet accurate description of these efforts.
I like the term so much that I'm going to start using "ideological [scientific field]" to refer to similar pseudo-scientific efforts in other fields.
Scouring trade route history is a two-edged sword: which way did influence run? I’m sure ideological archeology can solve that though. That path also has a lot of history.
Usually the way of the site of higher riches and more advanced technically, organizationally, etc, to the less one?
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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…
The null model is key: if you are mischievous, you can just define a seemingly benign but incorrect null model and generate extreme p values without discarding: all values will be significant!
If your goal in research is to p-hack your way to a conclusion, you will always succeed.
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If 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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If your goal in research is to p-hack your way to a conclusion, you will always succeed.
P-hack?