If you’re an academic desperate to publish or a consulting firm trying to find a politically convenient result, you sometimes run into the unpleasant reality that the world or at least the data you’ve gathered, doesn’t support your hypothesis.
In semi-regulated, self-licking ice cream cone research, a lack of statistical power is a feature not a bug.
A lack of power is not enough to make publication impossible, and too much power means actually reporting the danger of what you're doing to the authorities.
In semi-regulated, self-licking ice cream cone research, a lack of statistical power is a feature not a bug.
A lack of power is not enough to make publication impossible, and too much power means actually reporting the danger of what you're doing to the authorities.
Given your name, is there any chance you're involved in the state-level NC legislature taking a took at Baric's lab? Just curious!!! https://www.wral.com/story/state-house-leader-launches-probe-of-unc-coronavirus-researcher/22049828/
I’d of course never comment on ongoing litigation.
But on substack I mostly write about and discuss scientific shortcomings and biology.