Are people interested in reading an small article about a case of abuse of frequentist statistics? (In the end, the article was rejected, so the peer review process worked.) Vote this comment up if so, down if not. Karma balance below.
If it’s really frequentism that caused the problem, please spell this out. I find that “frequentist” is used a lot around here to mean “not correct.” (but I’m interested whether or not it’s about frequentism)
My understanding is that one primary issue with frequentism is that it can be so easily abused/manipulated to support preferred conclusions, and I suspect that’s the subject of the article. Frequentism may not have “caused the problem,” per se, but perhaps it enabled it?
Will the case be feasibly anonymous? I would vote that the article be left unwritten if it would unambiguously identifies the author(s), either explicitly or through unique features of the case (e.g. details of the case which are idiosyncratic to only one or a very few research groups).
I don’t know who the authors were or the specific scientific subject matter of the paper. (I didn’t need to know that to spot their misuse of statistics.)
Good point. Also, they might wish to rewrite and resubmit… in any case, you can’t reveal anything they would want to lay original claim to of feel afraid of being scooped of.
Are people interested in reading an small article about a case of abuse of frequentist statistics? (In the end, the article was rejected, so the peer review process worked.) Vote this comment up if so, down if not. Karma balance below.
ETA: Here’s the article.
If it’s really frequentism that caused the problem, please spell this out. I find that “frequentist” is used a lot around here to mean “not correct.” (but I’m interested whether or not it’s about frequentism)
My understanding is that one primary issue with frequentism is that it can be so easily abused/manipulated to support preferred conclusions, and I suspect that’s the subject of the article. Frequentism may not have “caused the problem,” per se, but perhaps it enabled it?
Will the case be feasibly anonymous? I would vote that the article be left unwritten if it would unambiguously identifies the author(s), either explicitly or through unique features of the case (e.g. details of the case which are idiosyncratic to only one or a very few research groups).
I don’t know who the authors were or the specific scientific subject matter of the paper. (I didn’t need to know that to spot their misuse of statistics.)
Understood!
Good point. Also, they might wish to rewrite and resubmit… in any case, you can’t reveal anything they would want to lay original claim to of feel afraid of being scooped of.
Karma balance.