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I’ve read the Risbey paper a few times now and, from first reading to last, it struck me as a very odd bird*. On the one claw it is billed as a topical review (which I think means you have to rub it onto areas of dried skin), but it’s not really a review. It has a list of papers tucked under its wing, which it treats as “data”, burying them in an Appendix rather than citing themª. There’s very little actual reviewing in the common sense. On the other claw, it presents a novel statistical analysis, which they claim shows, at best, very weak evidence for the statistical specialness of a period against whose popular name the authors have pitched their combined statistical and rhetorical powers. Continue reading
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