John Ioannidis on Statistical Significance, Economics, and Replication
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Is There a Law on Null Hypothesis Significance Testing?
Adam Seifus co-authored with Vinny Akbar-Saud of the book Ending Medical Reversal. The idea that there's a study comes out and says, this is good, or this is bad,. And people take it, well, it's peer reviewed, so therefore it must be true. But then when they go into the randomized control trial, they find out that the results are opposite.
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