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Bernoulli's Fallacy
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ISBN: 9780231553353 0231553358 9780231199940 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY

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"There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not just a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly data-reliant culture, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and our ability to make inferences from data. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. He recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. Clayton highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach-incorporating prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information-in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data-and how to fix it"--


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Towards a New Paradigm for Statistical Evidence
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Many scientists now widely agree that the current paradigm of statistical significance should be abandoned or largely modified. In response to these calls for change, a Special Issue of Econometrics (MDPI) has been proposed. This book is a collection of the articles that have been published in this Special Issue. These seven articles add new insights to the problem and propose new methods that lay a solid foundation for the new paradigm for statistical significance.


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Towards a New Paradigm for Statistical Evidence
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Many scientists now widely agree that the current paradigm of statistical significance should be abandoned or largely modified. In response to these calls for change, a Special Issue of Econometrics (MDPI) has been proposed. This book is a collection of the articles that have been published in this Special Issue. These seven articles add new insights to the problem and propose new methods that lay a solid foundation for the new paradigm for statistical significance.


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Towards a New Paradigm for Statistical Evidence
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Many scientists now widely agree that the current paradigm of statistical significance should be abandoned or largely modified. In response to these calls for change, a Special Issue of Econometrics (MDPI) has been proposed. This book is a collection of the articles that have been published in this Special Issue. These seven articles add new insights to the problem and propose new methods that lay a solid foundation for the new paradigm for statistical significance.


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Bernoulli's fallacy : statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science
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ISBN: 0231553358 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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"There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not just a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly data-reliant culture, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and our ability to make inferences from data. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. He recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. Clayton highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach-incorporating prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information-in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data-and how to fix it"--


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Why Trust Science?
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ISBN: 0691222371 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.

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Science --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Adverse effect. --- Adviser. --- American Association for the Advancement of Science. --- Americans. --- Amgen. --- Authoritarianism. --- Biologist. --- Biomedicine. --- Blind experiment. --- Bruno Latour. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Climate change. --- Climatology. --- Continental drift. --- Covid-19. --- Criticism. --- Decision-making. --- Dental floss. --- Distrust. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empiricism. --- Environmental impact assessment. --- Environmentalist. --- Epistemology. --- Eugenics. --- Experiment. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- Funding of science. --- Funding. --- Geneticist. --- Global warming. --- Governance. --- Graduate school. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Helen Longino. --- History and philosophy of science. --- Ideology. --- Institution. --- Karl Popper. --- Lecture. --- Logical positivism. --- Ludwik Fleck. --- Merchants of Doubt. --- Methodology. --- Misuse of statistics. --- Morality. --- Naomi Oreskes. --- National Science Foundation. --- Ottmar Edenhofer. --- Paradigm shift. --- Pascal's Wager. --- Peer review. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of science. --- Physician. --- Physicist. --- Political psychology. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. --- Princeton University. --- Psychology. --- Public health. --- Public policy. --- Publication. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Replication crisis. --- Reproducibility. --- Result. --- Sandra Harding. --- Science studies. --- Science, technology and society. --- Science. --- Scientific community. --- Scientific consensus. --- Scientific evidence. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific opinion on climate change. --- Scientific progress. --- Scientific revolution. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Skepticism. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Statistical significance. --- Suggestion. --- Sunburn. --- Sunscreen. --- Symptom. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Vaccination. --- Vetting.


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Experiments of the mind : from the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter
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ISBN: 0691232075 0691230714 9780691177311 0691177317 9780691230719 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download a health app, complete a Facebook quiz, or rate our latest purchase. How did experimental psychology come to play an outsized role in these developments? This book considers this question through a look at cognitive psychology laboratories. Emily Martin traces how psychological research methods evolved, escaped the boundaries of the discipline, and infiltrated social media and our digital universe.

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Psychology --- Psychology, Experimental. --- Human experimentation in psychology. --- Experimental psychologists. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Cognitive psychology --- Experiments. --- Experimental psychology --- Experimental psychologists --- Psychological experiments --- Psychology, Experimental --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Experimentation on humans, Psychological --- Psychological experimentation on humans --- Psychologists, Experimental --- Psychological research personnel --- Psychologists --- Research --- Experiments --- Psychology - Experiments --- Cognitive psychology - Experiments --- Human experimentation in psychology --- Cognitive psychology. --- Abstraction. --- Analogy. --- Anthropologist. --- Anthropology. --- Basic science (psychology). --- Behavior. --- Behaviorism. --- Behavioural sciences. --- Calculation. --- Causality. --- Coaching. --- Cognition. --- Cognitive science. --- Collaboration. --- Consciousness. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Control room. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Cultural practice. --- Decision-making. --- Digital media. --- Electroencephalography. --- Experiment. --- Experimental data. --- Experimental psychology. --- Face perception. --- Folk psychology. --- Functional magnetic resonance imaging. --- Funding of science. --- Gestalt psychology. --- Hallucination. --- Heuristic. --- How the Mind Works. --- Human subject research. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Imagination. --- Information seeking. --- Interrogation. --- Introspection. --- Laboratory Life. --- Language game. --- Lecture. --- Machine learning. --- Mental disorder. --- Mental representation. --- Microcomputer. --- Minds. --- Mood (psychology). --- Natural experiment. --- Neuropsychology. --- Neuroscientist. --- Objectivity (science). --- Observation. --- Opportunism. --- Organizing (management). --- Parapsychology. --- Perceptual psychology. --- Personality quiz. --- Persuasive technology. --- Pragmatism. --- Prediction. --- Product manager. --- Psyche (psychology). --- Psychic. --- Psychological Science. --- Psychological manipulation. --- Psychological research. --- Psychological testing. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Psychopathology. --- Qualia. --- Qualitative research. --- Questionnaire. --- Quiz. --- Replication crisis. --- Research assistant. --- Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming). --- Science project. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Scrutiny. --- Self-report study. --- Social psychology. --- Software. --- Spiritualism. --- Stanford prison experiment. --- Stimulation. --- Subjectivity. --- Technology. --- Test theory. --- Theory of mind. --- Thought. --- User experience design. --- Valence (psychology). --- Vulnerability (computing). --- Wilhelm Wundt.

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