Awesome link, statmitter!

That was awesome.

Nice! The confidence interval that this link might prove useful in explaining p-values to those who don't understand them is 0.57 to 0.99 with a p-value of 0.0001......

Statisticians aren't normal.

Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

Pretty good, but I'm not sure why they don't use the term "false positive." p ≤ .05 means "less than 5% chance of a false positive," which is a fairly concise way of putting it. Laypeople can relate to this concept; if nothing else, you can explain it in terms of pregnancy (or any arbitrary medical screening) tests.

squidzilla: Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

LOL

squidzilla: Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

That's just mean.

Mentat: squidzilla: Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

That's just mean.

It's a standard deviation...

This guy doesn't understand that even the readers of Science have trouble understanding what's meant by 40% POP in the weather report. I really doubt that some wording change is going to affect their confidence in a study.

The liberal arts majors probably abandoned the link after the first paragraph.

OgreMagi: The liberal arts majors probably abandoned the link after the first paragraph.

not true. I read to the 2nd question or so.

/ok, so I'm getting my masters, so I'm probably above average.

squidzilla: No, they aren't. They're average.

More like bimodal. ;)

wildsnowllama: Mentat: squidzilla: Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

That's just mean.

It's a standard deviation...

r you sure?

Statisticians do it but end up in trials.

NeauxFear: squidzilla: No, they aren't. They're average.

More like bimodal. ;)

Farking mean.

An engineer is working at his desk in his office. His cigarette falls off the desk into the wastebasket, causing the papers within to burst into flames. The engineer pulls out his engineering pad, does a quick calculation, grabs the fire extinguisher and sprays the fire for exactly 5.2 seconds to put it out, and goes back to work.

A physicist is working at his desk in another office and the same thing happens. He looks at the fire, looks at the fire extinguisher, and thinks "Fire requires fuel plus oxygen plus heat. The fire extinguisher will remove both the oxygen and the heat in the wastebasket. Ergo, no fire." He grabs the extinguisher, puts out the flames, and goes back to work.

A statistician is working at his desk in another office and the same thing happens. He immediately grabs a piece of paper, lights it on fire and begins setting fires throughout the room. "What are you doing???" shout his co-workers, to which he replies, "I need more data points!"

musashi1600: wildsnowllama: Mentat: squidzilla: Mentat: Statisticians aren't normal.

No, they aren't. They're average.

That's just mean.

It's a standard deviation...

r you sure?

I see we're in pun mode

Statisticians, the only ones who care what 35% of people whom watch daytime television think.

/get your confounding variables out of my null hypothesis

Barakku: I see we're in pun mode

it's an Alpha thing

actually, I think it would be wise to step out of this thread before I regress into a dummy varible.

mr lawson: Barakku: I see we're in pun mode

it's an Alpha thing

ruh rho says Scooby

So p-value is a stuck up, holier-than-thou way of saying probability?

bhcompy: So p-value is a stuck up, holier-than-thou way of saying probability?

It's a specific type of probability. And it's used by everyone in all the sciences, as far as I know, so it's only as stuck up as academia as a whole is.