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There’s nothing wrong with people publishing research that turns out to be mistaken. No problem at all. Sometimes you can’t know a path is a dead end until you walk down it.The problem is not (necessarily) with the original study. The problem is with a scientific culture that doesn’t have a good way of letting go of these mistakes. Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels....Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science“Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels”: updateAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
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There’s nothing wrong with people publishing research that turns out to be mistaken. No problem at all. Sometimes you can’t know a path is a dead end until you walk down it.The problem is not (necessarily) with the original study. The problem is with a scientific culture that doesn’t have a good way of letting go of these mistakes. Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels....Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science“Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels”: updateAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
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There’s nothing wrong with people publishing research that turns out to be mistaken. No problem at all. Sometimes you can’t know a path is a dead end until you walk down it.The problem is not (necessarily) with the original study. The problem is with a scientific culture that doesn’t have a good way of letting go of these mistakes. Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels....
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
“Like a harbor clotted with sunken vessels”: update
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University