No. 16: Beware Caesar – Alcohol Consumption and Alzheimer’s Disease

Published research from respectable journals and reported by renowned press outlets can be very misleading and of questionable importance. But it helps keep funding for the researchers and readership for the news media.

No. 7: What does p<0.05 mean anyway?

Some people say, "A p-value=0.05 is not very much evidence against the null hypothesis." Well then, how much evidence is it?

No. 6: Détente – The Peaceful Co-Existence of Significance Levels and Bayes

pr(B|A) ≠ 1 – pr(A|B). Why do we act like it ?!

No. 5: pr(You’re Bayesian) > 0.50

For too long statisticians have been peddling pr(data|hypothesis) when scientists [indeed all of us] want pr(hypothesis|data).