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Women Are Fat Not Because Donuts But Because “Discrimination”, Wee P-values Confirm
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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Update On The Death Of P-Values & Statistical “Significance”
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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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  1. Brian (bulaoren) on All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A ModelMarch 27, 2026

    Logic, empiricism, wisdom... These solvents are without impact for people who have, so often, survived them. I believe this is…

  2. spetzer86 on All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A ModelMarch 27, 2026

    It's interesting that the commenters using AI prove the point that the use of a model yielding apparently random results…

  3. JH on All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A ModelMarch 27, 2026

    When brilliant minds join forces with advanced computers that execute tasks with precision and speed by following instructions, they achieve…

  4. fergus on All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A ModelMarch 27, 2026

    Post script. Looks like you are hiding well, for now, from the AI in the sky. I asked it if…

  5. fergus on All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A ModelMarch 27, 2026

    Did not read the article, just copy/pasted the number list to ChatGPT and it got right back with: Yes —…

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