does statistical results ever upstage human judgement about statistical results

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Yes, it is possible that statistical results can upstage human judgement about statistical results

This is because there are number of hypothesis tests and analysis that can be performed statistically accurately than human judgement.

Human judgement about statistics might go wrong when it's close to acceptance and rejection of a value.

Also, human judgement can also be biased

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