Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF
marcos@lemmy.world 4 days agoAs I understand it, the data there is the histogram of z-value observed by some census of published papers.
They should make a normal curve, but the publishing process is biased.
Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF
marcos@lemmy.world 4 days agoAs I understand it, the data there is the histogram of z-value observed by some census of published papers.
They should make a normal curve, but the publishing process is biased.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But we also prioritize research where we suspect/hypothesize differences, so I think even if all research was published it wouldn’t necessarily be a normal distribution.