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A “Bayesian Bear” rejoinder practically writes itself…
These stilted bear figures and their voices are sufficiently obnoxious in their own right, even without the tedious lampooning of p-values and the feigned horror at learning they should not be reported...
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Return to the comedy hour…(on significance tests)
These days, so many theater productions are updated reviews of older standards. Same with the comedy hours at the Bayesian retreat, and task force meetings of significance test reformers. So (on the...
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Reblogging: Oxford Gaol: Statistical Bogeymen
Reblogging 1 year ago in Oxford: Oxford Jail is an entirely fitting place to be on Halloween! Moreover, rooting around this rather lavish set of jail cells (what used to be a single cell is now a...
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13 well-worn criticisms of significance tests (and how to avoid them)
2013 is right around the corner, and here are 13 well-known criticisms of statistical significance tests, and how they are addressed within the error statistical philosophy, as discussed in Mayo, D. G....
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Anything Tests Can do, CIs do Better; CIs Do Anything Better than Tests?*...
Having reblogged the 5/17/12 post on “reforming the reformers” yesterday, I thought I should reblog its follow-up: 6/2/12. Consider again our one-sided Normal test T+, with null H0: μ < μ0 vs μ...
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Bad news bears: ‘Bayesian bear’ rejoinder-reblog mashup
Oh No! It’s those mutant bears again. To my dismay, I’ve been sent, for the third time, that silly, snarky, adolescent, clip of those naughty “what the p-value” bears (first posted on Aug 5, 2012), who...
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First blog: “Did you hear the one about the frequentist…”? and “Frequentists...
Dear Reader: Tonight marks the 2-year anniversary of this blog; so I’m reblogging my very first posts from 9/3/11 here and here (from the rickety old blog site)*. (One was the “about”.) The current...
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Comedy hour at the Bayesian (epistemology) retreat: highly probable vs highly...
Our favorite high school student, Isaac, gets a better shot at showing his college readiness using one of the comparative measures of support or confirmation discussed last week. Their assessment thus...
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Oxford Gaol: Statistical Bogeymen
Memory Lane: 2 years ago. Oxford Jail (also called Oxford Castle) is an entirely fitting place to be on (and around) Halloween! Moreover, rooting around this rather lavish set of jail cells (what used...
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Comedy hour at the Bayesian (epistemology) retreat: highly probable vs highly...
Since we’ll be discussing Bayesian confirmation measures in next week’s seminar—the relevant blogpost being here--let’s listen in to one of the comedy hours at the Bayesian retreat as reblogged from...
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Fallacy of Rejection and the Fallacy of Nouvelle Cuisine
Any Jackie Mason fans out there? In connection with our discussion of power,and associated fallacies of rejection*–and since it’s Saturday night–I’m reblogging the following post. In February [2012],...
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Oxford Gaol: Statistical Bogeymen
Memory Lane: 3 years ago. Oxford Jail (also called Oxford Castle) is an entirely fitting place to be on (and around) Halloween! Moreover, rooting around this rather lavish set of jail cells (what used...
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Fallacies of Rejection, Nouvelle Cuisine, and assorted New Monsters
Jackie Mason Whenever I’m in London, my criminologist friend Katrin H. and I go in search of stand-up comedy. Since it’s Saturday night (and I’m in London), we’re setting out in search of a good comedy...
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Posts of Christmas Past (1): 13 howlers of significance tests (and how to...
. I’m reblogging a post from Christmas past–exactly 7 years ago. Guess what I gave as the number 1 (of 13) howler well-worn criticism of statistical significance tests, haunting us back in 2012–all of...
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Power howlers return as criticisms of severity
Mayo bangs head Suppose you are reading about a statistically significant result x that just reaches a threshold p-value α from a test T+ of the mean of a Normal distribution H0: µ ≤ 0 against H1: µ...
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