The three* most beautiful words in English:
"I don't know"
* four
22.11.2025 20:05
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The three* most beautiful words in English:
"I don't know"
* four
Can confirm.
"There’s just too many factors impacting on the proportion of p values that will be between 0.01 and 0.05 to assume that variations in it are either an improvement or a worsening in research practices."
Blog post by @freerangestats.info on "fragile" p values.
#MetaSci
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Nice title.
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small error bars (usually a good thing) revealed regression-to-the-mean (usually a bad thing)
in theory I agree with you!
in practice i believe you'll need a lot of highly-motivated scientists prepared to give up science & become journal-creators & political campaigners to turn this juggernaut around.
(this scientist will not join that fight!)
(with apologies to apostrophe pedant's for the typo in the first post)
theerrorbar.com?e=41
Open Science and It's Enemies.
Part III: The progressives
A-log (podcast) link here:
B-log (text) in next post 👇
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Writing...
Yes, it really does take training to over-ride our incorrect intuitions👍
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but not spelling
Oh wow, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
(I also teach resesrch methods 🤓)
Part II of my epic criticism of - some parts of - the #openscience / scientific #reform movement. Episode #40
"The populists" (& the podcasters; but not the meek)
Full text transcript, links & references (b-log):
theerrorbar.com?e=40
Podcast audio (a-log):
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
New episode coming some week soon...
...has been a long few months 😴
tell me about it
latest episode. Part I of a III-part mini-series on chronic problems in the Open Science movement:
spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/g4Qa0mBeLJb
THIS 👇
Three latest episodes from the error bar podcast Just die already, 55 plays Your sample is small, 66 plays Don't look back, 88 plays The series suggests a nicely consistent decline in listens since i changed the format, but what will be next month's listenership..?
next month i will have...
A) 44 plays
B) 49.5 plays
C) 10^9 plays coz it will be epic
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JUST DIE ALREADY
S03E03 #38
in this episode we find out how motivational talk makes you run faster & i ponder on the history of science & the death of [bad] ideas long, long after their time
listen / subscribe: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/GtHtUY3dyIb
read: theerrorbar.com?e=38
YOUR SAMPLE IS SMALL
Episode #37 asks whether it's ever really helpful to criticise a study for having a 'small sample'
It also reveals the final truth about men's & women's brains.
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hello!
THIS is the error bar, a podcast about neuroscience & statistics which focusses on stories that reach the UK news media. the account is owned by @thehandlab.bsky.social
(i've escaped from twitter.)
the latest podcast, Season 03, Episode 01: Don't Look Back is out!
theerrorbar.com?e=36