If two groups come up with different estimates, that’s one thing—if they come up with different estimates with wildly non-overlapping error bars (as in some of these examples) that suggests that there’s a problem of overconfidence. Perhaps the reported error bars should be much bigger for this kind of research—though I wouldn’t know how to quantify that.
If two groups come up with different estimates, that’s one thing—if they come up with different estimates with wildly non-overlapping error bars (as in some of these examples) that suggests that there’s a problem of overconfidence. Perhaps the reported error bars should be much bigger for this kind of research—though I wouldn’t know how to quantify that.