Wary of a “Consensus based transparency checklist” December 3, 2019 | General | 2 Comments A large collection of authors describes a "consensus-based transparency checklist" in the Dec 2, 2019 Comment in Nature… Read More
Nature commentary (March 2019) update from authors November 26, 2019 | General | No Comments In this post, I am sharing an email update from the authors of the March 2019 commentary in… Read More
“Don’t ask” teaching in Statistics November 22, 2019 | General | 3 Comments This short Nature World view article by Jerry Ravetz is definitely worth a read by all teachers of… Read More
An “as if” ramble about Type I… November 21, 2019 | General | 1 Comment I just finished the below post in one sitting and came back to write a reasonable introduction --… Read More
Sample size without power — Yes, it’s… November 16, 2019 | General | 4 Comments Given a few recent questions about my thoughts on statistical power, I'm going to try to get more… Read More
Argument for p-values: “Because I understand what… November 14, 2019 | General | 1 Comment This is another post inspired by an entry on Andrew Gelman's blog and the first comment: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/14/is-abandon-statistical-significance-like-organically-fed-free-range-chicken/. I… Read More
Research out of spite? November 13, 2019 | General | No Comments The post I started out to finish today got hijacked when I came across a barely legible quote… Read More
Giving too much power to power November 11, 2019 | General | 6 Comments In many scientific disciplines, power analysis has become a prerequisite for grant funding. And grant funding has become… Read More
Low tolerance for bullshit November 6, 2019 | General | 1 Comment I enjoy the honest narrative shared by Simon Raper, a frequent contributor to the Significance magazine published by… Read More
Oh, the incentives… November 5, 2019 | General | 1 Comment For scientists to continue to be scientists, they must survive in the environment in which scientists live. Understandably,… Read More