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by dnautics
4599 days ago
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Also, I'm in chemistry and biology (don't get me started about biophysics, which is populated by dilettantes who couldn't hack it in physics thinking that biophysics is "physics" - it's not. It's chemistry)... So what it means to me to be multidisciplinary may be different from what it means to you. People seriously just take standard deviations and then plug it into the formula to spit out p values. Without thinking about things like: "should the values be normally distributed? or log-normal?" "How does error propagate through this formula I'm using?" "Is the major source of error in the replicates that I'm using (versus something I might be normalizing to, like a mass measurement)?" "Am I in the linear range of my calibration standards?" "Is using these data quantitatively (versus qualitatively) an honest thing to do?" |
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