What has happened down here is the winds have changed

Re:What has happened down here is the winds have changed by ewr24 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:50AM (#12713638)

> When the authors protest that none of the errors really matter, it makes you realize that, in these projects, the data hardly matter at all.

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Re:What has happened down here is the winds have changed by draw_down on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:59AM (#12713661)

I think my personal favorite is the Kahneman quote about how you have NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT.

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Re:What has happened down here is the winds have changed by _yosefk on Saturday October 15, 2016 @08:21AM (#12713715)

I also find this quote remarkable, and not in a good way; but I recall that Kahneman's studies do replicate pretty well. (This is not to say that all their claimed implications are true - this is the part where "no choice but to accept" rubs me the wrong way.)

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Re:What has happened down here is the winds have changed by conistonwater on Saturday October 15, 2016 @10:47AM (#12714088)

The full no choice but to accept quote was specifically about priming studies, IIRC, and I guess what irked Gelman (a statistician) the most was that Kahneman got statistics wrong by overestimating the strength of evidence.

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