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0 pointsenavari1y ago0 comments

True, but I remember reading the replication failure rates were twice as much in the social science than in medicine.

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We constantly see small medical studies (<100 participants) posted here on HN that produce exciting results, which then disappear from view and/or fall apart when replicated with larger cohorts.

pessimizer1y ago

If that didn't happen, it would mean that math was broken. That's how statistics is supposed to work.

llamaimperative1y ago

How is this different from science working?

kjkjadksj1y ago

When it happens in the hard sciences its science working, when it happens in the soft sciences its a replication crisis.

llamaimperative1y ago

Haha that seems to be the case!

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matthewdgreen1y ago

We constantly see small medical studies (<100 participants) posted here on HN that produce exciting results, which then disappear from view and/or fall apart when replicated with larger cohorts.

pessimizer1y ago

If that didn't happen, it would mean that math was broken. That's how statistics is supposed to work.

llamaimperative1y ago

How is this different from science working?

kjkjadksj1y ago

When it happens in the hard sciences its science working, when it happens in the soft sciences its a replication crisis.

llamaimperative1y ago

Haha that seems to be the case!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse