The classics never cease to deliver

Statistical hypothesis testing feels like casting a magic spell: If you change your plan or peek at the data or try to test it a second time, you break the spell and your research falls under the invisible curses of p-hacking and invalid results. #statistics#research#experiments#p-hacking

I tend to see it as the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. He is not allowed to cast his gaze on her and when he does, he loses her forever. We are all Orpheus. We will always be. Curiosity drives us, after all. To be Orpheus is to care.

Tomorrow is German Unification day. It will be the first time since 2001 that I'll have that day off.

I remember doing a Special Issue with them a long time ago...

We've just posted a new preprint, "Care for the Soul of Science", by @sarahderijcke.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/me...#metascience#sts We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/

I get all of those connections. This was very obviously the intellectual context from which we drew this.

They are here: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I've done one of them myself. Lots of visibility and feedback (but I could have written it better ;-)) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...