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You cannot learn without failing. (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ideally? Yes

But a modern scientific environment puts a lot of pressure to present your results better than they really are.

It damages good science a great deal

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In my opinion, the obsession with being able to measure everything with numbers is the cause. And those numbers are inevitably converting d to units of money, because capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yup, metrics kill it all

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait are simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

over fitting, but people