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Professor Andrea Saltelli
UPF Barcelona School of Management, Barcelona, Spain, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
[An earlier post by A. Saltelli on this topic: Nov 22, 2019: A. Saltelli (Guest post): What can we learn from the debate on statistical significance?]
Analytic flexibility: a badly kept secret?
In a previous post in this blog I expressed concern about a loss of trust that could incur the activity of scientific quantification – as practiced in several discipline – unless some technical and normative element of crisis could be managed. The piece warned that the phenomenon could lead to “a decline of public trust in the findings of science”. Five years and one pandemic later, we may wonder if the danger has indeed materialized. Continue reading
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