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Famous statistical quotations
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook …
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Term for when hypothesis testing is conducted repeatedly until an interesting result is found?
Some examples
An example in the form of a cartoon (original source)
A more serious allusion in this quote by Ronald Coase:
If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess
This from Hadley …
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Statistics Jokes
"If you torture data enough it will confess" one of my professors …
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Does high correlation coefficient mean anything?
The reason I ask this is that if one looks hard enough, one can find all sorts of correlation between any set of data in stock market ("torture the data until it confesses"), so I now think that high correlation …
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How to describe statistics in one sentence?
Statistics is about torturing data long enough until it confess anything you want to show.
I am paraphrasing Ronald Coase, see link …
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Famous statistical quotations
If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.
--Ronald Coase (quoted from Coase, R. H. 1982. How should economists chose? American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D. C.). …
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Choice of test in a pre-post scenario
I would analyze the data a bit more before forming the hypothesis; run a correlation and a multiple logistic regression on time after death of sample vs. concentration (including age, etc.). If time a …
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how to interpret a scatter plot below?
With thorough time series analytics , we can develop a model like this with statistics like this with an eye-popping r-squared .. all without unnecessary and unwanted power transformations (data torture …
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Is it wrong to refer to results as being "highly significant"?
"If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess." - Ronald Coase). …
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Normalization in pairwise hypothesis testing
Whether you should combine 10 different ANOVA's into a single ANOVA depends on what the scientific question is. Remember there are assumptions that go into ANOVA models, one is equal variances, if th …
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Automated procedure for selecting subset of data points w/ strongest correlation?
I would say that your method fits into the general category described in this wikipedia article which also has other references if you need something more than just wikipedia. Some of the links withi …
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what kind of non-parametric test to use?
If you are going to torture your data until it confesses I would advise that you use a correction technique (like Bonferroni/FDR/Holm-Bonferroni/...) to protect yourself from false judgement. …
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Detect if there is actually two populations in a sample
Let's start with terminology. Population in statistics is the "set of entities under study". When designing the study, we define the population of interest and then draw samples from this population. …
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Interaction not significant, but one simple effect significant: linear mixed model with lmer...
Don't torture the data; those confessions are rarely true. Good luck; hope it goes well! …
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Is using deciles to find correlation a statistically valid approach?
There's a popular quote, whose originator appears to be Ronald Coase:
"If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess." …
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