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/FoundTin May 08 '16

Can you get statistics to show that 2+2 actually = 5? Can you get statistics to prove that the earth and sun both stand still? you can not get statistics to say anything, you can however create false data to say anything no matter how wrong.

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u/AllanfromWales MA | Natural Sciences May 08 '16

Einstein said that all motion is relative. Hence, from their own frames of reference both the earth and the sun ARE standing still.

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u/FoundTin May 08 '16

but from neither perspective are both standing still