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If anyone is depending on statistics to "prove" anything, they're in trouble.
by Fomite 12y ago
If anyone is depending on statistics to "prove" anything, they're in trouble.
- marktangotango 12y agoTouche, 95% of people who prove things on the internet use statistics.
- wolfgke 12y agoWith statistics I can definitely prove that something holds with a confidence, of, say 0,95, under the model assumptions [...].
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoIf you mistake the p-value on a frequentist hypothesis test for a Bayesian posterior probability, you've already messed up.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoHow do you prove that a medicine is safe and effective if not through large scale studies, which you then use statistics to show whether your hypotesus was correct or not?