> Given the very large number of experiments and studies being conducted everywhere, and the selection for positive results, statistical anomalies are being accidentally selected for and then not being extensively enough re-evaluated much later.
I once heard a natural language processing professor observe that a typical NLP conference might have twenty presenters, each giving results to a 95% confidence. "So even if everyone does all their work flawlessly, every conference will have on average one set of bad results."
I once heard a natural language processing professor observe that a typical NLP conference might have twenty presenters, each giving results to a 95% confidence. "So even if everyone does all their work flawlessly, every conference will have on average one set of bad results."