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2018-01-04 08:40:32     Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

http://www.jasnh.com/

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

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2017-06-15 21:16:00     When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv.../283865/?...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

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2017-04-03 21:05:14     The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

http://www.atlasobscura.com/...o-changed-how-we-see-data?...

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

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2016-10-20 10:41:18     Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/...ig-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, we’ve come... 1954, but i

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2016-10-17 18:22:16    

https://www.washingtonpost.com/...cautious-than-propublicas/

This past summer, a heated debate broke out about a tool used in courts across the country to help make bail and sentencing decisions. It’s a controversy that touches on some of the big criminal justice questions facing our society. And i...

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2016-10-02 08:40:00     Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/10/207757.../fulltext?...

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

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2016-09-28 21:02:51     Tax Research UK » The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/...ers-over-the-last-70-years/

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

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2016-04-22 20:55:34     How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/...e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#...

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... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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2016-03-24 19:09:15    

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...s-can-easily-explain-p-values/

But after writing about p-values again and again, and recently issuing a correction on a nearly year-old story over some erroneous information regarding a study’s p-value (which I’d taken from the scientists themselves and their report)...

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2016-03-08 17:22:02     xkcd: Significant

http://xkcd.com/882/

Significant

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2016-03-08 16:55:15     Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...over-misuse-of-p-values-1.19503?...

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

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2016-03-08 16:55:01     Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-1.17412

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

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2016-01-01 11:46:29    

https://medium.com/...gs-that-aren-t-certain-2fa54aa9340#...

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

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2015-11-10 11:18:53     Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar.../S1053811912003990

As an expert reviewer, it is sometimes necessary to ensure a paper is rejected. This can sometimes be achieved by highlighting improper statistical practice. This technical note provides guidance on how to critique the statistical analysis of neuroimaging

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2015-08-17 07:08:16     The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.../the-truth-wears-off

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

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2015-08-17 07:07:08     Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...ke-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

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2015-05-28 16:46:14     I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

http://io9.com/...thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of... had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 ... they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front pa...
I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is ...
Other than

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2015-03-23 10:26:49     The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ment-ministers-cost-cutting-pr

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

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2015-02-27 22:38:37     Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...thod-statistical-errors-1.14700?...

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

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2014-11-05 11:53:10     Automatic Statistician

http://www.automaticstatistician.com/about.html

Making sense of data is one of the great challenges of t... we live in. While it is becoming easier to collect and s... data, from personal medical data, to scientific data, to... commercial data, there are relatively few people trained... and machine

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2014-02-17 17:32:51     xkcd: Frequency

http://xkcd.com/1331/

Frequency
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Random
... Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency

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2013-01-06 13:37:43     Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

http://www.petrkeil.com/?p=302

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

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2012-08-03 12:32:19     Facts & Formulae leaflets | mathstore.ac.uk

http://mathstore.ac.uk/?q=node/57

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2012-01-12 08:58:04     The future of prediction - Ideas - The Boston Globe

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/01/0.../story.html?...

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2011-03-08 18:05:51     About - Statistical Analysis - Stack Exchange

http://stats.stackexchange.com/about

This is a free, community driven Q&A for statisticians, ... miners and data visualization experts.

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2011-01-06 15:32:37     BBC News - Can you count the packets of crisps?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12127631

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2011-01-06 15:26:26     BBC - BBC Four Programmes - The Joy of Stats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l

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2008-08-09 16:05:12     Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood

http://www.roma1.infn.it/~dagos/cern/node64.html

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2008-08-09 16:03:13     Bayes Theorem and Maximum Likelihood

http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/phys6720/h.../node10.html

So far we have been thinking of the probability for gett... know that the mean value should be . Now suppose we make... get counts, but we don't know anything about , except t... nonnegative, of course. We may turn the question around ... the most li

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2007-08-06 17:38:27     KDD-2002: Program Committee

http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/MRDM2002/

Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-discipl... with knowledge discovery from relational databases consi... tables. Mining data which consists of complex/structured... falls within the scope of this field, since the normaliz... of such obj

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