So, Conservatives not the psychotic ones, after all..

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(06-10-2019, 04:15 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Why do folks keep bringing up:


Yet omit the very next line


So the dude that found the errors says they matter, but the folks that made the error says they do not.

Here's the problem with using a third person source rather than seeking the full quote

The erroneous results represented some of the larger correlations between personality and politics ever reported; they were reported and interpreted, repeatedly, in the wrong direction; and then cited at rates that are (for this field) extremely high. And the relationship between personality and politics is, as we note in the paper, quite a “hot” topic, with a large number of new papers appearing every year. So although the errors do not matter for the result that the authors (rightly) see as their most important, I obviously think the errors themselves matter quite a lot, especially for what it says about the scientific process both pre- and post-review.

He admits that the errors don't change the argument of the paper (our personalities alone don't dictate our political beliefs) but that the errors matter in terms of the pre and post review process and how the media and other journals use data like this. We should be worried that an error slipped past the review process and that so many sources incorrectly used it to push agendas.