It drives me nuts when people write that the result of a statistical test is ‘highly significant’ or ‘marginally significant.’ William M. Briggs writes wryly today: “Smaller p-values are usually accompanied with the claim that the results “stronger” or “more significant”. False, of course, but since everybody says so you will be in good company.” [...]
In the new issue of Harper’s, there is a footnote in the main cover story that nicely sums up what a barrier to communication innumeracy can be: And to say there is room for academic improvement at the school [The High School for Health Careers and Sciences in Manhattan] is a vast understatement. Only 58 [...]
Okay, so I’m a bit more than 3 years late watching the ‘reimagined’ Battlestar Galactica series, but I just finished watching the sixth episode of the first season – ‘Litmus’ – in which an independent tribunal is convened to investigate a cylon suicide bomber. The chief source of drama in the episode is the ongoing [...]
It looks like I’ll be (at least) a week late with the promised new content. Naturally enough, since conferences are about 75% socializing and/or schmoozing and about 75% attending talks to try to locate the cutting edge of (math) psych research, I came home sleep deprived (on a statistically related note, I was recently told [...]