Comments on: Lost Purposes https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Borepatch https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-367333 Borepatch Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:19:33 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27007#comment-367333 But it will be different if we can just vote in the Right People!

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-367321 Isegoria Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:21:16 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27007#comment-367321 I’ve actually mentioned Ioannidis twice before: Why Most Published Research Findings are False and Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science.

]]> By: Ben https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-367305 Ben Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:21:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27007#comment-367305 Tangentially related, retractions abound.

]]> By: Slovenian Guest https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-366921 Slovenian Guest Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:49:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27007#comment-366921 Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, by John P. A. Ioannidis

]]> By: Ben https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/lost-purposes/comment-page-1/#comment-366846 Ben Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:35:36 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27007#comment-366846 There’s a history of argument going back well over 80 years on statistics, including in particular, the use/misuse of Fisherian p-values, Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing, likelihood-based methods, Bayesian methods and interbreedings thereof.

Great authors/academicians to look up for references are Stephen Goodman, MD, PhD and Stephen Senn (e.g. “Dicing with Death”).

Lately, John Ioannidis (sp?) is the guy who has taken up the sword against bad statistics, particularly in medicine.

Read about it, and weep.

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