{"id":4806,"date":"2014-01-17T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2014-01-16T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:21:27","slug":"statistics-done-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/statistics-done-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Done Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics Done Wrong<\/a> by Alex Reinhart is an awesome guide that points out holes in the reasoning of many scientific studies.\u00a0 I initially book marked it to double check myself.\u00a0 When dealing with survey and request data it’s easy to present a picture that is what you want to find, instead of what is actually there.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Statistics Done Wrong<\/a> deals with issues that are far above the data I pull for departmental reports.<\/p>\n

Each error is explained with a hypothetical and\/or real example of a study that contained statistical errors.\u00a0 This makes it even easier to wrap a layman’s mind around a subject that affects the authors of studies and articles for which he\/she is the end audience.\u00a0 As an example:\u00a0 after expounding on the multiple ways that scientists error in their quest to prove or disprove a hypothesis, Reinhart includes an excellent example of double checking<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0courtesy of John Ioannidis and Jonathan Schoenfeld. They studied the question \u201cIs everything we eat associated with cancer?\u201d51<\/a><\/sup>[1]<\/a> After choosing fifty common ingredients out of a cookbook, they set out to find studies linking these studies to cancer rates \u2013 and found 216 studies on forty different ingredients. Of course, most of the studies disagreed with each other. Most ingredients had multiple studies claiming they increased and<\/em> decreased the risk of getting cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another interesting thing: being allowed to right turn on red wasn’t considered until the 1970s and was allowed because of underpowered statistics and a drive to save gas in a fuel crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statistics Done Wrong by Alex Reinhart is an awesome guide that points out holes in the reasoning of many scientific studies.\u00a0 I initially book marked it to double check myself.\u00a0 When dealing with survey and request data it’s easy to present a picture that is what you want to find, instead of what is actually… Continue reading Statistics Done Wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1374,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/cartooning-scholarship\/","url_meta":{"origin":4806,"position":0},"title":"Cartooning Scholarship","author":"leems","date":"July 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever get the feeling that you picked the wrong unmarketable degree?\u00a0 Now, now, don't take that the wrong way.\u00a0 I just had this passing feeling that it would be great to study and dissect comics all day long.\u00a0 Have a look. 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