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Some feedback to "Retire statistical significance" Andrew Gelman's blog: bit.ly/2FvRmFl John Ioannidis: go.nature.com/2JLuCFJ Bloomberg: bloom.bg/2CPCDDz Vox: bit.ly/2CyzFmY NPR: n.pr/2CM8Z2e

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Scientists rise up against statistical significance

Nature - Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

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Throwing out the Hypothesis-Testing Baby with the Statistically-Significant Bathwater

Over the last couple of weeks several researchers campaigned for a new movement of statistical reform: To retire statistical significance. Recently, the pamphlet of the movement was published in fo…

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The notion that some things are not worthy of estimation is odd. How does that work?

2:57 PM · Apr 1, 2019Twitter for Android

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Stick to the point null unless the data provide evidence against it

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That sounds like a distortion of a simple heuristic for minimizing unhelpful complexity (Occam's razor) into a philosophy (nullism). It can be justified if all stakeholder utilities favor false negatives over false positives; that's not the case in my apps even if it is in yours.

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