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Yeah, this is how statistics is taught in a lot of psych departments. A bunch of tests and rules of thumb about when to use which equations, together with some
by throwawayjava 9y ago
Yeah, this is how statistics is taught in a lot of psych departments. A bunch of tests and rules of thumb about when to use which equations, together with some training on a piece of software.
IMO the "pragmatic rules-of-thumb" approach to teaching/understanding statistics is probably the genesis point of the reproducability crisis. This mindset toward stats has probably done more damage to Psychology than anything else in the history of the field.
So, proceed with caution.
- eli_gottlieb 9y ago>IMO the "pragmatic rules-of-thumb" approach to teaching/understanding statistics is probably the genesis point of the reproducability crisis. This mindset toward stats has probably done more damage to Psychology than anything else in the history of the field. Sure, but then we have another problem: if you need to know measure theory to run an experiment, nobody will run experiments. And lots of mathematical statistics just goes ahead and uses the measure theory.
- throwawayjava 9y agoThere's a middle-ground, though.