Halifax Mooseheads host QMJHL entry draft
Peter Simon, owner of the team, explains the significance of the draft being held in Halifax for the first time in 32 years.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7225322?cmp=rss

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Significance

Play is important for Doofie and Dingus, so they remember to do things just for joy.

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Advocates still trying to save Quebec artist's fountain in San Francisco as dismantling starts
The dismantling of a 55-year-old controversial fountain in San Francisco is beginning this week, much to the dismay of supporters of its 96-year-old sculptor from Quebec and the structure's historical significance.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/vaillancourt-fountain-art-quebec-san-francisco-9.7180497?cmp=rss

Kennetcook landmark designated as municipal heritage property
Kennetcook Community Chapel will receive a new heritage designation on Wednesday. Local residents hope it will help sustain its cultural significance and provide financial relief for ongoing preservation efforts.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/church-east-hants-municipal-heritage-property-9.7161117?cmp=rss

It must be very hard to publish null results https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:281&r=&r=cmp
"Most of the statistical tests … are severely Underpowered … implies that the majority of null hypothesis significance tests we run should yield #nullResults. Yet, the published literature tells a very different story.
… central mechanism behind this gap is selection on #significance, a filter that makes statistically significant estimates more likely to appear in print than null results.
… published estimates are afflicted by a “winner’s curse” that biases them away from zero, researchers commit more Type I error, metaanalyses become unreliable, and published studies are less likely to be replicable. When null results remain hidden in the file drawer, researchers may waste time and money studying the same ineffective interventions over and over
… share of pure null results is extremely small: fewer than 2% of abstracts report only null findings. By contrast, over 90% of articles that rely on statistical methods prominently claim to reject at least one null hypothesis.
… estimates that are statistically distinguishable from zero must be at least one order of magnitude more likely to appear in print than null results. Arguably more realistic assumptions can easily produce magnitudes of selection on significance around 100x"
#science #statistics #bias

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