Agreed. Statistics can be counter-intuitive, but it's not rocket science. Playing the "keeper of the true flame" and hiding the internals in intro stats cours

Agreed. Statistics can be counter-intuitive, but it's not rocket science. Playing the "keeper of the true flame" and hiding the internals in intro stats courses does everyone a disservice. I get there are a huge amount of non-mathematical scientists who go through these courses, but they should at least be equipped to get a funny feeling if they see something odd (and therefore go ask for advice). Rather than just believe "that's the number that came out." Mathematically rigorous and vetting meta-studies seem like they would help here too... validating methods and that studies reproduce within a range.