Randomness

  1. Math

    Tom Siegfried, Randomness

    For what you want to know, Bayes offers superior stats.

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  2. Love affair with statistics gives science a significant problem

    Scientists love statistical significance. It offers a way to test hypotheses. It’s a ticket to publishing, to media coverage, to tenure. It’s also a crock — statistically speaking, anyway. You know the idea. When scientists ­perform an experiment and their data suggest an important result — say, that watching TV causes ­influenza — there’s always the nagging concern that the finding […]

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  3. For what you want to know, Bayes offers superior stats

    It turns out that the old adage about statistics and damned lies wasn’t a joke. Sticks and stones may be bonebreakers, and words inflict no (physical) pain, but numbers can kill. In 2004, for instance, a statistical analysis suggested that antidepressant drugs raised the risk of suicide in youngsters and adolescents, leading the U.S. Food […]

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  4. Math

    If bird brains grasp statistical mechanics, there’s hope for predicting human behavior

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  5. Microbes

    Whether for brains or bacteria, intelligence is all about food

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