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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"?
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-09-10 00:05
8/ #References [1] Bishop, D., 2019. Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility. Nature 568, 435+. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01307-2 (free access version: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:59a5ddb4-407c-4cd5-9964-b611b15d47c4/files/me1715fd9a834e2208349f6c754de87e3) [2] Simmons, J.P., Nelson, L.D., Simonsohn, U., 2011. False-positive psychology: undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science 22 (11), 1359–1366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632 #DOI