Good fact-check -- in the Washington Post! -- about that paper on Puerto Rico hurricane deaths. Rev was right again! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/02/did-4645-people-die-in-hurricane-maria-nope/ …
If my understanding is correct, the CI doesn’t tell you *anything* directly about data. It’s a property of the *model*, specifically how likely it is that a real-valued parameter of the model is within bounds.
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Everyone reasonably assumes that statistical methods must tell you something you’d want to know (or else why use them?). But they all end up telling you something totally bizarre and useless. So you immediately forget that, and misremember that they do what you’d expect.
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