Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Your genetic profile

Craig Venter said, in response to a question about the 'risks' of knowing one's genetic makeup:

"Understanding the genetic code is understanding probabilities.  There is very little in your code that is yes/no."

Monday, October 17, 2011

Hazards of Having Good Students in your Introductory Statistics Class

This paper "Hazards of Having Good Students in your Introductory Statistics Class" by Trivellore Raghunathan about the meaning of confidence intervals and p-values is well-written and entertaining.

The meaning of p-values

Regarding p-values, Paul Meehl said something along the lines of "a p-value answers a question we shouldn't ask about a topic we aren't interested in".

THINK

"I've often said that once scientists get a p-value less than 0.05 or a confidence interval that implies statistical significance, they turn their brains off."  Steve Simon, quoted from here.

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