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The BMA Recycle BeHIT Bull****
On 23 Apr, 15:48, Mike Clark wrote:
In message * * * * * Toom Tabard wrote: [snip] Not necessarily. You may not have the statistical proof, but the empirical experience and knowledge of the practitioners in the particular area can be strongly indicative of the true effect and point to the flaws, and the reasons for them, in the statistical analysis. When reality seems at variance with the numbers, it is frequently the numbers which are flawed. There a legions of social, health and safety studies where concentration on the numbers followng the issues receiving concentrated attention, result in problems with comparison with earlier data which wasn't collected under the same spotlight, but where the empirical experience of practitioners not involved in the statistical studies can give some, possibly the best, evidence of the true effect. Toom Presumably you can cite some specific examples to substantiate your generalisations above? I certainly can, but you state you are a PhD, and a Reader, and in a medical discipline. Doesn't a PhD still involve finding things out for yourself. Most of the PhD students in my research lab seemed capable of this. You must, for many years have been tripping over copious specific examples illustrating what I've said. Didn't you notice them?I didn't know what I said was contentious. It certainly shouldn't be to any competent and aware researcher. Toom |
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