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Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense
SydShamino writes "CNN has a report on new research to confirm claims made in initial, well-publicized studies. According to the new study, about a third of all major studies from the last 15 years were subsequently shown to be inaccurate or overblown. The study abstract is available."
There's a new study to be published next week showing that only one quarter of all studies are overblown, including this one.
What... are you guys trying to blow up our heads?
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I think it is possible this is the most amusingly ridiculous piece of "legitemate" news I've read in awhile...
Anyone got anything to beat it? Post it, I need to shock my brain a little more
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I can imagine the next headline:
Study finds that previous study is also nonsense
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This study will cause an infinite loop..PLEASE SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY. 0x381F
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Because this is from the other 2/3rd studies talking about the other 1/3rd studies.
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Well, it says 1/3 of the studies are inaccurate, so let us rank that on a percentage scale, say the study is inaccurate, we give them a 0 value.
... *GASP FOR AIR* ... okay... so you have 66% chance of that particular study being at least somewhat accurate...
... (rolls percentile dice)... OOOOHH! Man, rolled a 72, looks like I can't believe it.
Accurate studies, lets say 100 (I know nothing is 100% accurate, and I know most studies even if they are somewhat accurate probably don't exceed 70% probability even in the specific environments they are enacted in, but lets just be over-generous since this whole thing is rather ridiculous anyway)
Right?
Rats.
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Obligatory Simpsons quote:
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."
all studies are biased and show exactly what the person who is doing
them want. much like stats, you can make anything prove anything
through working the #'s and asking the right questions
Can you prove this with a study? If not, I'll not believe you. I asked 100 people if they thought studies were overblown, and 33 of them said 'yes.' Where's
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What a nice paradox this story presents. "I am lying."
it was published three times?
four out of three people have problems with fractions.
According to the new study, about a third of all major studies from the last 15 years were subsequently shown to be inaccurate or overblown.
The actual figure turns out to have been 26.4% - much closer to 1/4 than 1/3.
I did my own study and it shows that one half of all studies are nonsense.
Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day (does beer count?)
Depends. One would have to calculate the water content of beer versus the rate of dehydration produced by the alcohol content. Following through, one would conclude that 8 glasses of beer would fall short of the goal of 8 glasses of pure water, with the only recourse being to drink more beer.
This, kids, is a practical demonstration of how to make science work for you.
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Correction: Study shows 66.66% chance that 1/3 of studies are nonsense.
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"when is a good time for an airplane full of people to crash into a residential neighborhood?"
When the passengers of that airplane are terrorists and that residential neighborhood is al-Qaeda's? or maybe when the passengers are kittens and that neighborhood is actually a big pile of yarn that coushins the fall. awwww, so cute.
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Actually, I believe the statistic was Forfty Percent.
Another one C/o Homer:
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
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Ahhh, academic research... only there can you get paid well to tell us absolutely nothing...
Evidently you've never visited Washington DC.
What?
Thats a pretty good one, my favorite was this one from the CNN news ticker:
"Public split on whether Bush is a divider."
a quick study shows that one third of all slashdot headlines are nonsense.
And another third is inaccurate or overblown.
A: 3.215 ± 3%
. . . 95% of the time.
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CNN is great, my favourite is there comment about the terrorists having "veteran suicide bombers".
If you're a suicide bomber long enough to become a veteran I think there's a good chance you're doing something wrong.