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Men Are More Accurate than Women... or lousy statistics ?

Image via Wikipedia A study of Duncan Irschick at the university of Massachusetts drew my attention. It says : Men Are More Accurate than Women When Hitting a Target with Force in the Dark The… more →

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Men Are More Accurate than Women... or lousy statistics ? — 2 comments

zyxo wrote 4 days ago: Image via Wikipedia A study of Duncan Irschick at the university of Massachusetts drew my att … more →

Tags: Data Mining, men and women : the big difference, Massachusetts, statistics

Gender, Cave People & an Apology for Psychology — 1 comment

Gary Wood wrote 3 weeks ago: If I have to hear another ‘it’s a throwback to cave people’ explanation to explain … more →

Tags: BS, Deja moo, psychobabble & pseudoscience, Psychology, rants, relationships/ psychology, Research, Sex and gender, academic laziness

Baloney Detection 101: Probability

Troythulu wrote 1 month ago: Most people have a very poor intuitive grasp of mathematical probability, and this can more often th … more →

Tags: Skepticism, Science, creationists, texas sharpshooter fallacy, parapsychologists, psychics, parapsychology, begging the question, Cold Reading

Howmany inputs do data miners need ? — 1 comment

zyxo wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Howmany records do you need to make a decent data mining model ? Let us f … more →

Tags: Data Mining, decision tree, Neural Network, Databases, statistics, Data Set, correlation

Sun vs climate change — 3 comments

Marius Ostrowski wrote 2 months ago: The BBC has an article this morning about how the Sun is at the “quietest” level  it has … more →

Tags: Politics, Marius Ostrowski, BBC, climate change, maunder Minimum, Southampton University, mike lockwood, Forecasting, discounting

Reading 11: Hypothesis Testing

smzachary wrote 3 months ago: Lessons Learned: Formulas get really messy Wording gets screwy: “we fail to reject” Hyp … more →

Tags: CFA, schweser, Quantitative methods, Chartered Financial Analyst, Education, CFA 2009, Schweser 2009, Test preparation, Business

Definitely not the meaning of "non-significant"

Ethan wrote 5 months ago: Andrew Gelman over at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science posted a hilariou … more →

Tags: statistics

Testing: When to use What

Dutch Hollis wrote 10 months ago: So, you’ve decided you’d like to optimize your homepage (or email campaign, or PPC creat … more →

Tags: online marketing tactics, Optimization, Testing, online testing, online optimization, testing and optimization tips, getting started with optimization, optimization how to, online testing how to

Statistical Insignificance in Advertising

iThink wrote 10 months ago: “1 in 2 who call us get a better deal” www.outsurance.co.za Have you heard a customer … more →

Tags: advertising, Marketing, Branding, Insurance, 50/50 odds, statistics, OUTsurance, Russian roulette, statistical insignificance

The Number One Culprit in Modern Medicine: Guesswork — 3 comments

bart wrote 1 year ago: The Crossover Health blog has fantastic commentary on Shannon Brownlee’s book “Overtreat … more →

Tags: bioehtics, Health Care, Insurance, Law, Medicare, misinformation/propaganda, Politics, Psychology, research discussion

Post #1001: Ireneo's Top Five Percent — 1 comment

Autochon wrote 2 years ago: The 50 best links of Ireneo’s first 1000 posts, in ranked order. 1. A Woman From The Inside Ou … more →

Tags: Lists, Top 50, ireneo's memory, BEST OF


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