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Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)
There will be no Class this week or next because of the Fourth. But to tide you over, this short video instructing you never to use of trust "P-values". P(agan)-values…
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Women Are Fat Not Because Donuts But Because “Discrimination”, Wee P-values Confirm
An irreconcilable conflict sets itself up in the minds of academic Experts who deny that race exists while tracking every imaginable metric by race, which they say doesn't exist, and…
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The Reason Why Much Science Is Broken: Every Use Of P-Values Is A Logical Fallacy
I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying "correlation doesn't imply causation." Taken loosely, it…
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What Can You Replace P-Values & Hypothesis Testing With, Especially When Computing Sample Sizes?
Dr B asks a question about what to do about sample sizes and hypotheses after the scourge of p-values and null hypothesis significance testing are recognized for what they are.…
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The Only Argument Against P-Values You Will Ever Need
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…