The same reason you wouldn't put in an entire actual question/sentence, unless you either don't know how to use Google, are pissed off, or have an actual reason to suspect that it would yield proper hits (e.g. looking up an excerpt).
Not feeding them tokens is neglect.
I try to feed them a healthy diet.
331c8c71•56m ago
I am wondering why would anyone use a t-test when the experiment is clearly modelled by a binomial distribution: 250 independent questions and each one is either answered correctly or not (the null is that the success rate is the same).
plewd•40m ago
jampekka•17m ago
331c8c71•4m ago
I'd say this is benign compared to other ways of (mis)using statistics e.g. looking which way the difference goes and then running one-sided tests or tweaking the setup until one gets "significant" p vals.
jampekka•29m ago
freehorse•5m ago