I agree. But optimizing for good storytelling is different from optimizing for good science. A good scientific result would be like: “minicamp attendees are 12% more efficient in their lives, plus or minus 3.5%”. A good story would be “this awesome thing happened to an minicamp attendee” (ignoring the fact that equivalent thing happened to a person in the control group).
Maybe the best would be to publish both, and let readers pick their favourite part.
I think that people who don’t care about statistics are still likely to be impressed by vivid stories, not that I have any numbers to prove this.
I agree. But optimizing for good storytelling is different from optimizing for good science. A good scientific result would be like: “minicamp attendees are 12% more efficient in their lives, plus or minus 3.5%”. A good story would be “this awesome thing happened to an minicamp attendee” (ignoring the fact that equivalent thing happened to a person in the control group).
Maybe the best would be to publish both, and let readers pick their favourite part.
I’m sure they’ll be publishing both stories and statistics.