Unfortunately, there’s an error in your logic: You call that type of medical journal article error “universal”, i.e. applicable in all cases. Clearly a universal quantifier if I ever saw one.
That means that for all medical journal articles, it is true that they contain that error.
However, there exists a medical journal article that does not contain that error.
Hence the medical journal error is not universal, in contradiction to the title.
First logical error … and we’re not even out of the title? Oh dear.
Perhaps a clearer title would have been ‘A Universal Quantifier Medical Journal Article Error’. Bit of a noun pile, but the subject of the post is an alleged unjustified use of a universal quantifier in a certain article’s conclusion.
By the way, I think PhilGoetz is 100% correct on this point—i.e., upon failure to prove a hypothesis using standard frequentist techniques, it is not appropriate to claim a result.
Unfortunately, there’s an error in your logic: You call that type of medical journal article error “universal”, i.e. applicable in all cases. Clearly a universal quantifier if I ever saw one.
That means that for all medical journal articles, it is true that they contain that error.
However, there exists a medical journal article that does not contain that error.
Hence the medical journal error is not universal, in contradiction to the title.
First logical error … and we’re not even out of the title? Oh dear.
Perhaps a clearer title would have been ‘A Universal Quantifier Medical Journal Article Error’. Bit of a noun pile, but the subject of the post is an alleged unjustified use of a universal quantifier in a certain article’s conclusion.
By the way, I think PhilGoetz is 100% correct on this point—i.e., upon failure to prove a hypothesis using standard frequentist techniques, it is not appropriate to claim a result.
Oh come on.