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by zug_zug 660 days ago
There are cases where people have doctored images in their research data, or completely fabricated data to meet a significance threshhold.

There may be ambigious cases but there are non-ambiguous cases too.

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or scientist who just don't understand statistics.

a biologist can understand how zillions of proteins interact with each other without understanding how to work with raw data.

We had to pass statistic courses in biology also.