Posted inCulture
Sit Still — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The hardest thing for any (sane) man to do is to sit still and take it like a real man. Especially when the 'it' is delivered by a shrieking witch.…
Posted inBook review Statistics
Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…
Posted inPhilosophy
How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?
Soak this up (emphasis original): By the time she turned up in New York, [Justina Walford's] faith had long since unraveled, a casualty of overseas travel that made her question…
Posted inStatistics
When We Abandon Statistical Significance, Non-Statisticians Will Resist The Strongest
Regular readers will know the arguments and evidence proving P-values should no longer be used for any reason. If you still doubt, which I doubt, read this paper. Every decision…
Posted inStatistics
Making P-values Weer To Achieve Significance Won’t Help
Mini-paper out in JAMA by Matt Vassar and pals: "Evaluation of Lowering the P Value Threshold for Statistical Significance From .05 to .005 in Previously Published Randomized Clinical Trials in…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
What Are P-Values?
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, ...I'd still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…
Posted inStatistics
Poor Richard Carrier Goes On The Offensive
Six years ago I wrote a small, daily piece (Bayes Theorem Proves Jesus Existed And Didn't Exist) about the use of probability in proving or disproving the existence of God.…
Posted inStatistics
What People Think Probability Words Mean
The graph above came from Github and was the result of a poll of folks on Reddit. "The raw data came from /r/samplesize responses to the following question: What [probability/number]…
