Scott Alexander on reporter degrees of freedom

Scott Alexander highlights how hopeless it is to try and easily get accurate insight into scientific issues.

Reporter Degrees Of Freedom
I. A sample of Thursday’s talk at Yale: These are four headlines describing the same study, Milkie, Nomaguchi and Denny (2015). The study found that of twenty or so outcomes, only three of th…

Originally posted on Google+ · November 22, 2015

  1. In my humble opinion, Vox, National Post, Washington Post and (cough) Fux news aren't the right places where to get accurate insight into scientific issues any issue.

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