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The Last Two Research Studies Ever
Bad news is that there won't be any news studies for us to pick on. With the two papers presented below, all scientific research has officially come to a close.…
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Update On The Death Of P-Values & Statistical “Significance”
Received this email from Valentin Amrhein et al. about the efforts to jettison for all time "significance". And replace it (say I) with this. If only I could get the…
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Grifters vs True Believers In Lancet’s Climate Report
It's difficult, but not impossible, to pick out the grifters from the true believers in the Lancet's "Countdown on health and climate change." But noticing the entire thing is scientific…
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Harvard Claims CO2 Makes You Stupid
You must be pretty dumb. Not the royal "you". You as in you, dear reader. This isn't me saying it. This is Harvard. Our best university, and therefore our best…
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Nature Claims Cognitive Performance Declines After Being Exposed To A Candles
I used to review these papers in the hopes people would understand the old ways of doing statistics, in particular experiments on human subjects, were guaranteed to produce over-certainty. I…
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Universities The World Over Eliminating Testing
It isn't fair, dear readers, that Yours Truly is taller, stronger, more virile, intelligent, handsome, humorous, magnificent and humbler than you. I was born that way. These esteemed and desirable…
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Forget Randomization
I am only six months behind in answering thoughtful emails from readers. Here is one from Stephen Puryear: Dr. Briggs, please go back and elaborate on your ideas about why…
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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…