<p>I don't believe there's any precedent for ruling such questions out of scope. Their requiring statistical expertise to answer would be the general principle under which they're in scope.</p>
<p>The kind I don't think we want include questions that</p>
<ul>
<li><p>are too specific—say pertaining to the standards of an ethics
board at a particular institution</p>
</li>
<li><p>ask us to resolve a conflict between statistical &amp; extra-statistical
ethical imperatives. &quot;If I don't do the p-hacking my boss insists on,
I may lose my job &amp; not be able to pay for my son's violin
lessons&quot;—write to the agony aunt at your newspaper of choice.</p>
</li>
</ul>
