Is epidemiology 90% wrong?

Stats Chat 2013-03-15

Summary:

There’s been a recent recurrence of the factoid that 90% of results in epidemiology are wrong. For example, @StatFact on Twitter posted ‘Empirical evidence is that 80-90% of the claims made by epidemiologists are false.’ with a link to a talk by Stanley Young at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.  I replied “For suitable [...]

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Tags:

medical news random variation

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 13:02

Date published:

03/13/2013, 01:22