Eager-Beaver Researchers


Meanwhile our eager-beaver researcher, undismayed by logic-of-science considerations and relying blissfully on the “exactitude” of modem statistical hypothesis-testing, has produced a long publication list and been promoted to a full professorship. In terms of his contribution to the enduring body of psychological knowledge, he has done hardly anything. His true position is that of a potent-but-sterile intellectual rake, who leaves in his merry path a long train of ravished maidens but no viable scientific offspring.

First, I found this quote in the paper itself, next rediscovered it in Statistics Done Wrong.


References (1)

  1. Statistics Done Wrong (2015) by Alex Reinhart 13 4 Mathematics Statistics Science Audit