(April 17, 2023 at 6:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 17, 2023 at 6:15 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, like I've said, I think that they don't exist.
Also, why do you think peer review and discrimination based on p-values are not the core of science? What is, then?
Because science would still exist without peer review or p-values (as it did for thousands of years). Peer review and p-values would not exist without science.
The core of science is investigation, not publishing.
Boru
Well, I think p-values are the core of modern science. You are right that, for most of the time science has existed, statistics was not advanced enough to allow the calculation of p-values in most cases. That slowed down the progress of science a lot (If Semmelweis was able to calculate the p-values, Levy would not be able to suggest that his observations are a coincidence). But, like I've said, I think it's the core of modern science.
I am not sure how you think peer review did not exist before modern times. You don't think scientists have always been asking other experts "Hey, is this anything?" before publishing something?