Stefano Coretta
For this discussion you were required to read Mindless statistics.
It’s quite a dense paper. Discuss with your peers what you understood and what is still unclear and ask us to clarify the less clear points!
You can use the following prompts to check your understanding.
What is the “null ritual”? How is it different from (proper) frequentist statistics and Bayesian statistics?
What do the author mean with “the null ritual became institutionalized as statistics per se”?
How do Fisherian and Neyman-Pearson’s significance testing differ from each other?
Why do you think researchers develop the “cognitive illusions” of Section 4?
What are the main takeaways of Sections 6 to 8?
What do we mean with “statistical (re)thinking?