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yeah i am a p-hacker who can do any kind of statistics so long as it is nonparametric statistics because i only know the binomial distribution


On a site like this where anyone can comment and only a few do, this is the far greater problem compared to p-hacking: https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/mks/statmistakes/filedrawer.....

There are probably 512 people in this thread right now that have had that same experience you did but didn't reject the null hypothesis so they're not commenting.


I dunno.

I play the game of assessing the gender balance of groups a lot.

Some of it is wondering where society is going, some of it is just trying to avoid sausage parties. Trans people don't give me any trouble because they want to be assigned a certain gender, non-binaries might force me to learn the multinomial distribution but those seem to turn up at the 1/256 - 1/512 level if that.

I stopped going to Yoga classes in my ZIP code because they attract a lot of middle-aged and older men who, I think, are there to look at women without doing anything too strenuous.




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