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Making P-values Weer To Achieve Significance Won’t Help
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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…
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The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials
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The Controversy Over Randomization And Balance In Clinical Trials

There was a paper a short while back, "Why all randomised controlled trials produce biased results", by Alexander Krauss, in the Annals of Medicine. Raised some academic eyebrows. Krauss says,…
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An Illustration Of Type I Scientism
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An Illustration Of Type I Scientism

Regular readers will recall there are two Types of Scientism. Type I is belief that Science is needed to verify commonplace truths. Type II is the belief that only Science…
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Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!
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Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!

Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…
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Quack Quack: 25% of Students “Traumatized” By 2016 Election
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Quack Quack: 25% of Students “Traumatized” By 2016 Election

Headline 25% of students say they were traumatized by the 2016 election, study says A quarter of students found the 2016 so traumatic they now report symptoms of PTSD, according…
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You Can’t Quantify The Unquantifiable
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You Can’t Quantify The Unquantifiable

I stole the picture below from YouGov. A new YouGov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various descriptions to be. YouGov showed respondents a selection of…
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Proof Education Is Bad For You
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Proof Education Is Bad For You

Headline The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America First-time mothers are older in big cities and on the coasts, and younger in rural areas and in…
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Amazon’s AI Proves Men Better Than Women At Tech Jobs
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Amazon’s AI Proves Men Better Than Women At Tech Jobs

Item Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (Thanks to Mark Charters for the tip.) Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new…
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