The importance of not equating science with statistical calculations

Created
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 20:27
Updated
Fri, 21/04/2023 - 20:27
All science entails human judgment, and using statistical models doesn’t relieve us of that necessity. Working with misspecified models, the scientific value of statistics is actually zero — even though you’re making valid statistical inferences! Statistical models are no substitutes for doing real science. Or as a famous German philosopher famously wrote 150 years ago: […]