PhilGoetz comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Cyan 21 February 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 22 February 2010 12:35:31AM *  0 points [-]

Well... different ranking outcomes (different sides of the coin) are possible. Just that the interpretation will always be "don't reject the null hypothesis" but yeah. :)

Either way, my overall reaction to your post is "yuck" (not your post itself! That I upvoted. I mean the whole situation... That a relatively standard statistical test could allow this sort of madness. I mean, I know frequentist stats isn't the Bayesian way, but that relatively standard methods in it can be this pathological does not at all give me warm fuzzies)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 February 2010 02:12:54PM 0 points [-]

It's not the fault of the method if someone abuses it.

Comment author: wnoise 25 February 2010 06:15:23PM 2 points [-]

In general, no. However, if a method is more easily abused than others, that that is something worth pointing out.