I don’t find it surprising that it took this long.
Speaking only for myself, when I encounter a superior technique I almost always fail to go back through my life and re-evaluate everything according the new technique.
Thinking about the research community, I have no reason to expect the same mechanism does not apply. I also note that only recently did the replication crisis, and the discussion about standardizing on better statistical methods, seem to hit saturation.
I feel like I have seen other papers that revisit old results with a new technique, always with some new insight to offer. This causes me to suspect that the same positive-results bias that usually affects publication still affects revisiting old equations.
It would be a good idea to systematically update all point estimates with distributions, but I don’t see any reason to expect that this was already happening.
Tangentially related: this seems like the kind of thing that language AI and theorem-provers would be pretty good at—having the machine automatically review the literature and apply the new technique instead of the old technique.
I don’t find it surprising that it took this long.
Speaking only for myself, when I encounter a superior technique I almost always fail to go back through my life and re-evaluate everything according the new technique.
Thinking about the research community, I have no reason to expect the same mechanism does not apply. I also note that only recently did the replication crisis, and the discussion about standardizing on better statistical methods, seem to hit saturation.
I feel like I have seen other papers that revisit old results with a new technique, always with some new insight to offer. This causes me to suspect that the same positive-results bias that usually affects publication still affects revisiting old equations.
It would be a good idea to systematically update all point estimates with distributions, but I don’t see any reason to expect that this was already happening.
Tangentially related: this seems like the kind of thing that language AI and theorem-provers would be pretty good at—having the machine automatically review the literature and apply the new technique instead of the old technique.