Scientists rise up against statistical significance
I think I will forever be bitter about an argument that I had with a professor in college about statistical significance. There was a study with 12 (or some other tiny N) people who were told to click a button when they saw some change as a laser was moving in a circle. They were then asked to go back and pick the place where the laser was when they observed the change. The study found that people remembered clicking the button 10ms (or some other tiny value) before they actually did. This was clearly grounds for all of us to question whether humans had free will at all, because the result was statistically significant after all! When I challenged the professor on this, I was told that I should take a statistics class. I think that professor still turns me off from philosophy to this day. This happened in a philosophy class