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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Apex Fallacy

 This post from Andrew Gelman (well, the comments) led me to learn about the “apex fallacy” today:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/09/26/does-this-fallacy-have-a-name/


…which led me in turn to read about the “spotlight fallacy” and “toupee fallacy”:


https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spotlight_fallacy

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy



Friday, September 25, 2020

Covid at Cornell

 Covid... the Cornell experience:

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2020/09/good-news-from-cornell.html

Early success, but Kaiser Fung does caution at the end:

"Whether the success will last is an open question. It's only three weeks into the term."


Thursday, September 24, 2020

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Saturday, September 12, 2020

"Dear p-values...."

 Taking the p-values pledge:

https://medianwatch.netlify.app/post/pvalue_pledge/

"Based on this latest experience and my exhaustion with dealing with p-values, I am making a pledge:

There will be no p-values in any paper that I co-author in the next 12 months."
  
-- Adrian Barnett