Good to see the collection in print at at last, as it took years for it to get out. Anyone who wants a copy of my contribution and can't download it from the SIM site can contact me for it.

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Thus, we should not be surprised when imposing these methods leads to inferences or decisions that look absurd when viewed within the application context, and that distort literature as seen in Fig. 1 of

Most importantly, statistical methods are in the end only numerical data manipulations, with plug-ins for contextual input that are oversimplified yet hard to understand and use properly, so end up defaulting to contextually irrelevant values of convenience.>.

toolkit statistics, in which statistical approaches are understood as classes of data-processing algorithms with specialized areas of application. All become misleading when used beyond their valid domain, as shown by the prevalent abuses of NHST.>.

You point to nothing that is circular so your accusation is mere name-calling. The actual divisions between us are value-laden, with you promoting faith in an authoritarian 20th-century statistical regime and I promoting its reform and integration into>.

Elsewhere your arguments are as wordy as any you attack, yet ignore the core reasons "statistical significance" and "confidence" have oversold statistics and damaged much scientific literature via their confusion with ordinary language.>.

Congratulations on this detailed critique of a bad approach! (footnote: unit-randomized experiments can be found in Peirce in the 1880s; Fisher built statistical methods around randomized designs and campaigned for their use. See Stigler 1978 .

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Congratulations Pavlos on another fine contribution!.

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Here is a shorter version of "There's Not Much Science in Science", given in a slightly different context, for the International Conference on Using Epidemiological Studies in Health Risk Assessments, Berlin Nov. 2023:.

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So true: 'a collection of perfectly-rational learners can in fact ratchet themselves into believing foolish things. agents with most extreme biases tend to dominate how the system evolves' -.as commonly interpreted, "statistical significance"/"confidence"/NHST form a case study.

Final print version of my rejoinder to comments on "Divergence vs. decision P-values" is at .All commentators agreed the main distinction is important, but raised key issues, esp. the need to be alert to insensitivities of a diagnostic to model violations.

Nice vignette! I would only change "the coin is fair" to "the coin tossing is fair": A skilled tosser can alter the frequency of heads if they know the initial side up and catch the toss. That bias can be avoided by tossing the coin into a wall and letting it land on the floor.

RT @rlmcelreath: R^2 etc is part of my "statistics is pants" lecture that I have never given but really should write up so I can let the de….

For those interested in the defects of "standardized" coefficients and proportional-variance measures like R-squared and correlation coefficients, see.