Some two and a half years ago I posted this article: “An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument“. The title is unfortunate; or, rather, the subtitle is. It should have […]
The Only Argument Against P-Values You Will Ever Need
How Do You Know If An Experiment Works? Or, Yet Another Argument Against P-values
Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Anon asks questions about models (I added the bold question brackets and the link). Pay attention most closely to [Q2], which is our […]
The Difference In Means & Why P-Values Should Not Be Used — Excerpt From The Lake Michigan Dialogues
“Say, Briggs. Since you’re Statistician to the Stars!, explain to me how I can tell if two means are different in a simple way that even I can understand.” You got two […]
Thirdhand Smoking: A Triumph Of Wee P-Values
We last did third-hand smoking back in 2011. Even then I didn’t think the concept would far. How silly can you get? Pretty silly. Thanks to Dan Hughes we have the peer-reviewed […]
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 word probability. […]
Who Do You Trust More: A Sturgis Biker or An Academic Economist Waving His Wee P-value Around?
The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): “Now we’re all here together tonight. […]
What Are Empirical P-values?
This is part II of contributor William Raynor’s request at defining p-values without using the word probability. This assumes you read and assimilated Part I. First, a clarification from Ryanor: A context […]
The Sorrow And The Pity Of P-values
Thanks to the Wrath of Gnon, we have this report: Sorry, wrong number: Statistical benchmark comes under fire, from Phys.org. Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge […]
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