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Ezra Klein interviewed Zeynep Tufeckci about basically this because she's had an unusually good track record for a non-specialist on lots of topics, and it real
by sn9 3y ago
Ezra Klein interviewed Zeynep Tufeckci about basically this because she's had an unusually good track record for a non-specialist on lots of topics, and it really comes down to being statistically literate and putting in the work: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-zeynep-tufekci-transcript.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
- harry8 3y ago>really comes down to being statistically literate A lot of people writing scientific papers aren't statistically literate. It also seems that what was considered first rate methodology even a decade ago is now considered deeply unreliable.
- a123b456c 3y agoA lot of it depends on who (as in, which group of scientists) is doing the considering.
- ramraj07 3y agoMost scientists who don’t have grad level math education fail miserably in understanding statistics. Even the top ones. I was the statistics expert in my lab when doing my PhD and I had no business being one. All I was good at was calling out that one way ANOvA is just a t-test and when they should just stick to non parametric methods.
- CrazyStat 3y ago> one way ANOvA is just a t-test If there are only two groups, yes. There are often more than two groups.
- Jun8 3y agoAlso helps that Tüfekçi got her undergraduate degrees at good universities in Turkey which means she had to go through and score well on the grueling university entrance exams.
- pandeiro 3y agoThe die hard masking advocate is your example? Wow