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 [...]