Search Results for “p-values” – Page 54

Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming

Academic philosopher S Matthew Liao (NYU) and pals are coming to get you. They want to monkey with your genes, kill your unwanted, inject growth-stunting hormones into your womb, poison…

Statistics

Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don’t Understand Women

Men are traditionally thought to have more problems in understanding women compared to understanding other men, though evidence supporting this assumption remains sparse. So opens the peer-reviewed paper "Why Don't…

Philosophy Statistics

What Should Philosophers Of Statistics Do?

A while back, far longer than it should have been, D.G. Mayo asked me to stop by her place and comment on a couple of posts. But laziness and excessive…

Culture

On What’s Behind The Notes In Music

As (then) Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen said1: [I]t is impossible to have any kind of evolution [change] without something that evolves or a change without permanence...It is no escape from…

Philosophy Statistics

What Statistics Really Is: Part II

Read Part I, Part Paradox I claimed, and it is true, that all statistical problems could be written $latex \Pr(p|q)$, where p is a proposition of interest and q is…

Philosophy Statistics

What Statistics Really Is: Part Last

Read Part I, Part Paradox, Part II Recapitulation: we have Pr(p|qm) where p is a proposition of interest, q the evidence we have compiled in the form of observations and…

Fun Philosophy

Is There Free Will? A Conversation With Dr. Sam Hurtus

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MbL6wbg1Y&w=560&h=315] I got the idea for this from regular reader Jim Fedako, who points us to a cute video showing the screwiness of p-values. Turns out the video was…

Statistics

A Peculiar Prevalence Of P Values Just Below .05

Today's title is lifted directly from the paper of E. J. Masicampo & Daniel R. Lalande, published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. The paper is here, and is…

Hagfish Bagpipe on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
Wonderful graphic. That's what I would say if the bloody bouncer dropped the velvet rope and let me enter Club…
C-Marie on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyNovember 13, 2024
There has always been "the church system of man" within the Catholic Church. Do read Matthew 24: 4-8 " 4…
Briggs on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
All, I have done examples so many times I lost count. Here's one: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/36507/ We'll be doing this in Class…
NLR on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 13, 2024
The situation Rudolf Harrier describes is disappointing. But, unfortunately, there is currently an effort to destroy mathematics, though so far…
Jorge Gonzales on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
I got A's in statistics but always hated it. Statistically speaking it was 80% lying with numbers and 20% proving…