>IMO the "pragmatic rules-of-thumb" approach to teaching/understanding statistics is probably the genesis point of the reproducability crisis. This mindset towa

>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.