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Will the Real Junk Science Please Stand Up?
Junk Science (as first coined).* Have you ever noticed in wranglings over evidence-based policy that it’s always one side that’s politicizing the evidence—the side whose policy one doesn’t like? The...
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In defense of statistical recipes, but with enriched ingredients (scientist...
Scientist sees squirrel Evolutionary ecologist, Stephen Heard (Scientist Sees Squirrel) linked to my blog yesterday. Heard’s post asks: “Why do we make statistics so hard for our students?” I recently...
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P-value madness: A puzzle about the latest test ban (or ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’)
. Given the excited whispers about the upcoming meeting of the American Statistical Association Committee on P-Values and Statistical Significance, it’s an apt time to reblog my post on the “Don’t Ask...
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“Frequentist Accuracy of Bayesian Estimates” (Efron Webinar announcement)
Brad Efron The Royal Statistical Society sent me a letter announcing their latest Journal webinar next Wednesday 21 October: …RSS Journal webinar on 21st October featuring Bradley Efron, Andrew Gelman...
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Statistical “reforms” without philosophy are blind (v update)
. Is it possible, today, to have a fair-minded engagement with debates over statistical foundations? I’m not sure, but I know it is becoming of pressing importance to try. Increasingly, people are...
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3 YEARS AGO (OCTOBER 2012): MEMORY LANE
3 years ago… MONTHLY MEMORY LANE: 3 years ago: October 2012. I mark in red three posts that seem most apt for general background on key issues in this blog.[1] Posts that are part of a “unit” or a...
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WHIPPING BOYS AND WITCH HUNTERS (ii)
. At least as apt today as 3 years ago…HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Memory Lane with new comments in blue. In an earlier post I alleged that frequentist hypotheses tests often serve as whipping boys, by which I...
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