Beyond Seven Review No. 43
Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in Beyond Seven Review
Book and publishing history đźšź
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Does 'Bloomberg QuickTake: Disruption's Fallout' Disrupt the Idea of a Book?
Brief article about a digital (only?) e-book from Bloomberg. Like Kindle Singles, I think.
Data analysis and Bayesian statistics âš˝
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Abandon Statistical Significance
Abstract: "We discuss problems the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm poses for replication and more broadly in the biomedical and social sciences as well as how these problems remain unresolved by proposals involving modified p-value thresholds, confidence intervals, and Bayes factors. We then discuss our own proposal, which is to abandon statistical significance. We recommend dropping the NHST paradigm—and the p-value thresholds intrinsic to it—as the default statistical paradigm for research, publication, and discovery in the biomedical and social sciences. Specifically, we propose that the p-value be demoted from its threshold screening role and instead, treated continuously, be considered along with currently subordinate factors (e.g., related prior evidence, plausibility of mechanism, study design and data quality, real world costs and benefits, novelty of finding, and other factors that vary by research domain) as just one among many pieces of evidence. We have no desire to “ban” p-values or other purely statistical measures. Rather, we believe that such measures should not be thresholded and that, thresholded or not, they should not take priority over the currently subordinate factors. We also argue that it seldom makes sense to calibrate evidence as a function of p-values or other purely statistical measures. We offer recommendations for how our proposal can be implemented in the scientific publication process as well as in statistical decision making more broadly."
Free/libre and open-source software 🌺
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Placing documents into the public domain
DJB's method for putting software into the public domain. His method takes 2 words "Public domain" vs. CC0's 1066 words. That's quite a savings.
Information and Geisteswissenschaften 🏺
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The term "virtue signaling" as virtue signaling
Mark Liberman on the uses of the term.
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