Significant Results

Definition

Selecting data to prove a result that can get a scientific paper published.

Context

Reputational Crisis

• 2024 Gerd Gigerenzer: Mindless Statistics

Problems

Statistical Inference P-Values or confidence intervals

• Fisher said "No scientific researcher will ever have the same level of significance from experiment to experiment"
• Neyman-Pearson emphasized the role of judgement
• Baysian is the only way to get real numbers.

Moral courage, Philip Zimbardo who is famous for his stain for prison experiment, and two colleagues, asked theri participants "do you feel that there is a difference between altruism and heroism?"

Solution

• Stop funding so many post-doc researchers in colleges.