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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…

Philosophy Statistics

Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned

This week traditionally is a slow week on the blog, so let me have a go at explaining something I've explained a few hundred times before, a thing which has…

Statistics

Science: Even Monkeys Can’t Stand Looking At Kamala, Yet They Predict She Wins

Monkeys, specifically rhesus macaques, the word as yet being out on the other primates, though research is doubtless underway (I have my suspicions on orangutans), prefer Trump's face to Kamala's.…

Philosophy Statistics

David Stove Exposes Karl Popper’s Wee P!

We have discussed before (and in detail here) how Fisher, inventor of the wee P of which scientists boast ("Look how small my P is!" shouted the excited scientist), was…

Statistics

The Mathematical Trick Guaranteed To Win You A Nobel Prize

My friends, the title is not hyperbole. The scheme I present below will work. But it will require some hard work to get there. Which is only proper, since we…

Statistics

Questions On Statistical Practice Answered

Forgive me my friends, because of reasons I am terribly far behind on everything. Regular posting to resume soon. While back in a post, I was ranting about something like…

Statistics

Making Up Data To Prove Models?

There is this idea in statistics called the "bootstrap." The idea is not crazy, but it's not quite right either. Works like this: data comes in, and usually some parameterized…

Statistics

Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report

There was another Broken Science event this past weekend in the Phoenix area. Yours Truly was there. I gather the videos will be on line at some point, at the…

Johnno on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Hear! Hear! Briggs! Let us begin by awarding ourselved medals for a job well done. The greater the screeching for…
JH on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
From my experience, watering down in mathematics has been occurring since I began teaching nearly three decades ago. This trend…
DAA on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
One of the most problematic aspects of this change is how to really evaluate people. Universities as they stand do…
Paul Fischer on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Join? RAB? Who's in the group so far? I mean, it's a great idea, but shouldn't we focus on slaying…
Rudolph Harrier on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Our university is discussing the possibility of restructuring the mathematics program. The supposed reason is "lack of financial viability." We…