Wednesday, February 09, 2011

[rquhonrt] Finding non-randomness in digits of pi

It's easy to generate billions of statistical hypotheses looking for non-randomness in digits of pi, for example, the relative frequency of 123 versus 457.  Test them.  By chance, some will be statistically significant, and report only those results.

This kind of "multiple hypotheses fraud" plagues science.

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