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Very, very helpful analysis. It’s rather amazing how often statisticians make up methods and use them, but which the statistical “community” at large is unaware of and which have not been independently validated. The results get reported but the methods remain uninvestigated.
Many (many) public health agencies are relying on questionable …
Very, very helpful analysis. It’s rather amazing how often statisticians make up methods and use them, but which the statistical “community” at large is unaware of and which have not been independently validated. The results get reported but the methods remain uninvestigated.
Many (many) public health agencies are relying on questionable reporting of associations to make all kinds of policy recommendations, not even waiting for any demonstration that their recommendations will have a positive effect. I wish I could find partners for you to write an “antidote” paper but I’m afraid it wouldn’t be “novel” (just a service to mankind).
We've written enough. But they never take.
Problem is, we recommend slowing down and checking. Nobody wants to slow down, nobody wants to check.
Got it. Let’s make a list of some references of papers already written that can be handed over to stastisically-illiterate folks.
Good idea. Will do.