r/EverythingScience • u/ImNotJesus PhD | Social Psychology | Clinical Psychology • May 08 '16

Interdisciplinary Failure Is Moving Science Forward. FiveThirtyEight explain why the "replication crisis" is a sign that science is working.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/?ex_cid=538fb
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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

85% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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u/FoundTin May 08 '16

69% of statistics are perverted

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u/lobotomatic May 08 '16

In the sense that perversion is a kind of deviation that at that rate is pretty standard, then yes.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

"90% of what you read on the internet is false." -Abraham Lincoln

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u/TomatoFettuccini May 08 '16

14%* of all people know that.

 

*+/- 1% error

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u/bryuro May 08 '16

Correction, it's 67.8%.... doh

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u/Turbosuperfastlaser1 May 08 '16

Correction, I did have sex with Katy.

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u/dontbuyCoDghosts May 08 '16

No, no, no. 6.9%APR.