
Jordan Ellenberg, “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” (Penguin Press, 2014)
New Books in Mathematics
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The Importance of Validity in Medical Studies
Medical studies determine a large portion of our health care. We are producing medical research at like a vastly higher rate than we ever have any other time in human history right. There's a new danger that if you try a thousand things the odds are very good that some of them are going to appear to work just by chance and that requires a real level of statistical rigor and hygiene on the part of researchers.
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