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by esyir 1637 days ago
Yeah, Full agreement on the arbitrary fragility index. One of the main issues with the more squishy sciences is the cargo-culting around specific breakpoints, which happens due to a lack of statistical chops to begin with.

At least at the labs I've been at, the vast majority have no clue what those p-values they get mean, nor do they realize that the 0.05 cutoff that they so often target is entirely arbitrary.