"Amazingly, it is widely considered acceptable for medical researchers to be ignorant of statistics. Many are not ashamed (and some seem proud) to admit that they 'don't know anything about statistics'. "Huge sums of money are spent annually on research that is seriously flawed through the use of inappropriate designs, unrepresentative samples, small samples, incorrect methods of analysis and faulty interpretation."Douglas Altman (1994) 📷
"Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can contribute to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes 'scientific progress' in many areas." Paul Feyerabend (1981) 📷
"Biologists all too often act as if mathematical techniques possess magical powers, transforming incomprehensible raw data into clear and precise scientific conclusions. Nothing could be further from the truth." Michael Begon (1979) 📷
"The practice [of significance testing] seems to be promoted on the theory that scientists need to protect themselves and others against the dangers of thinking. After all, as Fleiss notes with alarm, if we allowed to think we might arrive at different interpretations... To the contrary, the notion that it is hazardous for scientists to think is itself an exceedingly dangerous myth". Charles Poole (1987) 📷
Top-notch peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals should have access to their own statistical experts.
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