On 15-Mar-10 16:22:13, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Hi all, > I thought that readers of R-Help might find the following article at > ScienceNews of interest: > > Odds Are, It's Wrong > Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics > By Tom Siegfried > March 27th, 2010; Vol.177 #7 (p. 26) > > http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_are,_its_wro > ng > > Regards, > Marc Schwartz
If you changed your Subject to "Odds R, it's wrong", arc, you might get more on-topic, Marc. Or at least increase people's subjective beliefs that it was OT. That's not a bad article, as such things go! I was reminded of reading, many moons ago in a book[1] by John Ziman[2], words to the effect that[3]: "If your experiment gives a result significant at the 5 per cent level, then 1 in 20 of your colleagues is entitled to disblieve you." [1] Ziman, John (1968). Public Knowledge: Essay Concerning the Social Dimension of Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-06894-0. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ziman [3] I don't have the book immediately to hand (though I have it somewhere), so cannot vouch that the above is verbatim. However, it's not far off, and the final clause very probably is verbatim. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Mar-10 Time: 17:21:02 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
