MINDLESS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING Decision science news has a post on hypothesis testing that I find relevant. Some well-made points grow old while no one pays attention to them. One of the most embarrassing for social science is its categorical perception of p-values. Tender of kindred Web site Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern have an article [...]
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December 11, 2006
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The Difference Between Significant and Not Significant is Not Statistically Significant
By jose in Blog, Statistics, Teaching
December 4, 2006
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Writing: granularity
By jose in Teaching, WritingThere is an invited post over at lifehack.org by Michael Leddy, an English professor who recommends that we should divide major actions (such as “write term paper”) into smaller, more doable tasks (NAs in GTD’s parlance). I think this could be a good read for students, and even for academics; Most of us keep this partitioning [...]