2026-09-09 22:47 UTC
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She notes [1]:
"Back in 1975, psychologist Tony Greenwald noted that science is prejudiced against #NullHypotheses: We even refer to sound work supporting a null hypothesis as “failed experiments.” That prejudice results in #PublicationBias: researchers are less likely to write up studies showing no effect; editors less likely to accept them, and so no one can learn from them"
[1] cites the #pHacking bias: "the practice of trying many analyses and only reporting the 'significant' results"
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-09-10 00:04
7/ On the omission and invisibility of #NegativeResults, [1] cites "an elegant, comic paper" [2] showing how even a most improbable thesis can be defended this way: "how to craft analyses to prove listening to the Beatles made undergraduates younger" [1] Which kind of "meta"-thesis on #genAI itself might be defended by actors investing "enormous amount of computational resources" with "the refusal [...] to disclose their #NegativeResults or reveal the process towards obtaining their solutions"?