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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: How many people read an average research paper?
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 01:34:41 EST
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When I was working in medical research at Harvard I remember getting
into a big argument with someone about what the chances were that,
given a random sample of papers, some number of them were wrong and
would be later disproved. I threatened to do a T-test of such
overturned findings on his group's papers and publish that I had
discarded the null hypothesis and proven, with a p << .001, that
everything they have ever said or would say was wrong.

I don't speak to that person any more...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University