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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by platz on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:25AM (#20896473)
At the end of the day, people need to make a decision about something, and I suspect this is what is forcing the importance of this binary distinction.

My decision to select, implement, go, or no go cannot itself be a probability distribution.

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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by TallGuyShort on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:27AM (#20896485)
Decision to select shouldn't be the subject of academic or scientific papers in the first place. There's far more context required in decision making than just how strong a correlation is.
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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by platz on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:40AM (#20896619)
I agree, but you might see how this error or preference creeps in psychologically
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