At his talk at the Broken Science Epistemology Camp in March 2024, psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer addresses what he calls ‘mindless statistics.’ Rather than think critically about the implications, impact, and meaning of studies, researchers are stuck in a system which rewards publication and statistical significance. The pressure to publish has encouraged them to p-hack, slice data, and essentially cheat their way into showing their research is important.
Professor Gigerenzer dives into the history of statistical analysis in his field of psychology, which has led to a paradigm of rituals, in place of meaningful thought.
Professor Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
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This is made exponentially worse by “biostatisticians” who train outside of any contextual field who mindlessly report to the untrained clinicians what they “found”.
What a nice and clear talk about how Science has been Broken.