Big Data's "theory-free" analysis is a statistical malpractice

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@jhbadger

Indeed. You are describing Bonferroni correction, but multiple hypothesis correction is an ongoing topic of investigation. Honestly, all this “people don’t know the pitfalls of statistical inference” stuff in the media is getting pretty tedious. Yes, “people” as in the general public, perhaps. But people who actually do statistics as part of their job know the issues and deal with them.

Well, there are a lot that don’t.