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Bayes Blast 5 – Importance Hacking

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Usefulness

Clinicians often distinguish between statistical significance and clinical significance to highlight the pitfalls of ignoring effect sizes. The last one, hacking beauty, makes results seem clean and beautiful when it is in fact messy or hard to interpret. Spencer: I like this idea because if it is as big of a problem as p hacking, it's kind of exactly like this embargo and Milgram stuff, right?

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