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How to Spot Statistical Garbage

The Political Orphanage

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The Importance of Statistics in Gun Control Studies

Skeptics look at the statistically stronger results that researchers chose to omit. Most studies you have to dig into the details if you can get them to figure out things like that. My dad was a very old school super honorable scientist and he often, you know, criticize people but wouldn't take seriously research of people who did what I considered minor kind of technical violations of the honor code. And one of the saddest things about all this is when people are caught in egregious fraud and making up data and lying about their results,. The institutions always close ranks to protect them.

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