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| | In this week's New Yorker , Jonah Lehrer shows once again just how hard it is to do good science journalism if you are not yourself a scient...
| | summerseminarphilstat.com
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| | A key recognition among those who write on the statistical crisis in science is that the pressure to publish attention-getting articles can incentivize researchers to produce eye-catching but inadequately scrutinized claims. We may see much the same sensationalism in broadcasting metastatistical research, especially if it takes the form of scapegoating or banning statistical significance. A...
| | theoreticalecology.wordpress.com
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| | Note also the blog post by Daniel Lakens on the same topic here. Update March 23, 2022: a more concise / slightly modified version of these thoughts was published as a letter in TREE, co-authored together with Fred Barraquand. Background Criticism of p-values has been rampant in recent years, as were predictions of their imminent...
| | sander.ai
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| This is an addendum to my post about typicality, where I try to quantify flawed intuitions about high-dimensional distributions.