I’ve been thinking for awhile that the default ways in which statisticians think about science—and which scientists think about statistics—are seriously flawed, sometimes even crippling scientific inquiry in some subfields, in the way that bad philosophy can do. Here’s what I think are some of the default modes of thought: – Hypothesis testing, in which […]
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