and concludes that 17-25% of studies with a p-value acceptance threshold of 0.05 will be wrong
That’s not what the dude concludes.
To quote the article itself (emphasis mine), “Although it is difficult to assess the proportion of all tested null hypotheses that are actually true, if one assumes that this proportion is approximately one-half, then these results
suggest that between 17% and 25% of marginally significant scientific findings are false.”
That’s not what the dude concludes.
To quote the article itself (emphasis mine), “Although it is difficult to assess the proportion of all tested null hypotheses that are actually true, if one assumes that this proportion is approximately one-half, then these results suggest that between 17% and 25% of marginally significant scientific findings are false.”