bs2🧵 and from Bradford Hll
> ... too often I suspect we waste a deal of time, we grasp the shadow and lose the substance, we weaken our capacity to interpret the data and to take reasonable decisions whatever the value of P. And far too often we deduce ‘no difference’ from ‘no significant difference.’Like fire, the chi-squared test is an excellent servant and a bad master.
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Classic articles on statistical thinking | Edward Tufte
The Median Isn’t the Message by Stephen Jay Gould Prefatory Note by Steve Dunn Stephen Jay Gould was influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on the evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo’s Smile, The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life, and Full […]