The method that can "prove" almost anything - James A. Smith
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In 2011, a group of researchers conducted a study designed to find an impossible result. Their study involved real people, truthfully reported data, and commonplace statistical analyses. So how did they do it? The answer lies in a statistical method scientists often use to try to figure out whether their results mean something, or if they’re random noise. James A. Smith explores p-hacking.
If researchers use a p-value of 0.05 to reject a null hypothesis, then 1 out of 20 times when the null hypothesis is true, it will be rejected when it shouldn’t be. Do you think this is a high enough standard for scientific evidence? Is it lower, higher, or about what you expected?
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- Educator James A. Smith
- Director Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Music Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer Amanda P.H. Bennett
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox
- Fact-Checker Jennifer Nam
