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Interesting article! Some minor statistical pet peeves: 1. Setting non-significant bars to 0 seems fishy. Leaving them and putting confidence intervals on ever
by closed 10y ago
Interesting article! Some minor statistical pet peeves:
1. Setting non-significant bars to 0 seems fishy. Leaving them and putting confidence intervals on everything would let them speak for themselves.
2. Calling something effect size is ambiguous. That's like saying you measured distance in units (and the wiki article on effect size linked makes clear there are a billion measures of effect size).
I'm guessing their measure of effect size were the beta coefficients in a multiple regression?
- eanzenberg 10y agoNot minor at all. It's very easy to mislead intentionally or not with statistics and that's why rigorousness is needed. No details are given for the analysis, even basic things like definition of what "top university" or "top company job" even means. It's just amazing to see how many positive comments a post like this gets without even the hint of methodology.