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Fixing statistics is more than a technical issue

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  1. Andrea Saltelli

    1. University of Bergen, Norway.

  2. Philip Stark

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Too many practitioners who discuss the misuse of statistics in science propose technical remedies to a problem that is essentially social, cultural and ethical (see J. Leek et al. Nature 551, 557–559; 2017). In our view, technical fixes are doomed.

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Nature 553, 281 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00647-9

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