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 = hacking 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.
• Nunally has a more valid book

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.