Re:What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
by zby on Monday September 16, 2019 @04:17AM
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The article omits the problem number one here: it is the most surprising results that get the most attention and among the most surprising many would be false. Extraordinary claims get extraordinary attention and this is not cancelled out by the requirement of extraordinary evidence.
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Re:What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
by Tarq0n on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:23AM
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Not quite. It's a fact of statistics that sometimes you'll sample extraordinary evidence for a hypothesis that's false. Check out this paper for some examples: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/PPS5....