The 20% Statistician

A blog on statistics, methods, philosophy of science, and open science. Understanding 20% of statistics will improve 80% of your inferences.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Impossibly hungry judges

I was listening to a recent Radiolab episode on blame and guilt, where the guest Robert Sapolsky mentioned a famous study on judges handin...

Monday, June 19, 2017

Verisimilitude, Belief, and Progress in Psychological Science

Does science offer a way to learn what is true about our world? According to the perspective in philosophy of science known as scientific re...

Thursday, May 11, 2017

How a power analysis implicitly reveals the smallest effect size you care about

When designing a study, you need to justify the sample size you aim to collect. If one of your goals is to observe a p -values lower than ...

Friday, April 14, 2017

Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles

The Dutch toilet cleaner ‘WC-EEND’ (literally: 'Toilet Duck') aired a famous commercial in 1989 that had the slogan ‘We from W...

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