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bookish

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    Comment #47330758

    Thank you

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    Comment #35701811

    Agreed! This might be the fastest moving tech area right now, so it makes sense that it's generating a lot of news and interest.

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    Comment #35524258

    Does the sentence imply that they aren't costly? Would you write "strongly averse" instead of "somewhat averse" or "it is the end of the world" instead of "it isn't the end of the …

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    Comment #35517999

    I've been called worse things, and at this stage in life it is hard to be offended by people who don't know me well enough to give an insightful insult. But I hadn't responded to t…

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    Comment #35516730

    Totally agree about visualization, and that those authors are great advocates for it. Confidence intervals are definitely much more informative and intuitive than p-values. Would t…

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    Comment #35515667

    It all depends on what you're experimenting on. I do think there are many teams out there who are (in effect) making decisions with less certainty than this, but they wouldn't want…

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    Comment #35515163

    Classics!

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    Comment #35515154

    Thanks for that. I'll give [1] a read. I'm familiar with [2], and cited one of those papers in the blog. About the stupid or harmful nature of null hypothesis testing in general, w…

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    Comment #35514723

    The "stasis" and "arbitrarily adjustments" regimes that I wrote about are certainly ones that I've seen, which don't rely solely on p But let me turn that around and ask: what prod…

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