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		koe123 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019) Which is a great idea if we ignore all other issues in academia, e.g. pressure to publish etc. Taking such a hard-line stance I fear will just yield much less science being done.

Cpoll 12 months ago | [–]

> much less science being done

This isn't obviously a bad thing, in the context of a belief that most results are misleading or wrong.

UweSchmidt 12 months ago | [–]

Let's do a less science then, but rigorous and throrough. Or find more funding.

But surely let's have a "hard-line stance" on not drowning in BS?

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