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Statistical Rethinking, 2nd Edition
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Statistical Rethinking, 2nd Edition

by Richard McElreath
March 2020
Beginner to intermediate
612 pages
22h 10m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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6    The Haunted DAG & The Causal Terror

It seems like the most newsworthy scientific studies are the least trustworthy. The more likely it is to kill you, if true, the less likely it is to be true. The more boring the topic, the more rigorous the results. How could this widely believed negative correlation exist? There doesn’t seem to be any reason for studies of topics that people care about to produce less reliable results. Maybe popular topics attract more and worse researchers, like flies drawn to the smell of honey?

Actually all that is necessary for such a negative correlation to arise is that peer reviewers care about both newsworthiness and trustworthiness. Whether it is grant review or journal review, if editors and reviewers care ...

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ISBN: 9780429639142