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by drewse 5723 days ago
This title yelled "paradox!" at me. It's funny to see it coming from a ".gov" website.

For those who need clarification, if this published research and its title are true, than it is saying that research like itself are usually false. This contradicts the original assumption that it is true.

If this published research and its title are false, than research like itself is usually true since what it's saying must be wrong. This contradicts the original assumption that it is false.

1 comments

Amusing at first glance, yes.

Of course he's talking about studies that use significance tests, which his own paper isn't directly using to prove his point.