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Problems with statistics in psychology and neuroscience research (bengoldacre.posterous.com)
1 point by adrianhoward on June 27, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Interesting.

I didn't read the whole documents but based on experience and real life stories this is what I can tell.

One brilliant therapist told me one time how many stocks I was using in my research trying to let me down but I replied. It doesn't matter how many stocks, I only need to fully understand the behavior of one stock to make me rich. Of course, not an easy task.

But some thoughts I had at the moment that I didn't told him and it was that if you fully understand me instead of judging me based on statistics/generalizations maybe we can do better. (Even though I want to think that this was not my case)

And worst, many people could say that this is ignorance, but that could be the reason to why so many therapies fail on some people, even with the worst case scenarios like dead.




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