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Debunking Misuse of Statistics

Paranormal Believers and Pareidolia? Not So Fast…

November 1, 2012July 2, 2013 emilskeptic confidence intervals, context, paranormal believers, pareidolia, practical significance, religious believers, research blogging, statistical significance

A recently published study (Riekki et. al. 2012) on the difference in susceptibility to pareidolia between paranormal believers and skeptics

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Debunking Misuse of Statistics

Quantity and the Biological Context

October 30, 2012July 2, 2013 emilskeptic asterisks, biological context, confidence intervals, effect size, equivalence, p-values, practical significance, significance test, statistical significance

The second half of a typical presentation of a mediocre study in biology goes something like this: a graph is

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