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Stats courses for non-statisticians should focus on teaching people how to tell when they need to call in an expert. (Which is most of the time, of course. And that is not unique to statistics.)

And academic journals in medicine etc. need to require that research involving the use of statistics has been reviewed and okayed by specialist statisticians, and prioritise publishing null results. The last would save future researchers a lot of time.



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