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I dunno really, it honestly seemed like the theory was the point, which is so ass backwards that I just couldn't handle it.

Note that this all happened before the replication crisis, but I 100% wasn't surprised, having been shocked and appalled by the statistical methods used in "top" papers.

As Andrew Gelman notes, peer review doesn't help if all of your peers are wrong about the same things.




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