gwern comments on Against NHST - Less Wrong

57 Post author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: gwern 03 February 2015 03:57:33AM 0 points [-]

"An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values", Colquhoun 2014; basically a more extended tutorial-like version of Ioannides's 'Why Most Published Findings are False', putting more emphasis on working through the cancer-screening metaphor to explain why a p<0.05 is much less impressive than it looks & has such high error rates.