New Post: Important statistics papers

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Post title: Unlearning statistics

Intro idea: I never learned anything about statistics until the first year of undergraduate psychology. And I was surprised I needed to learn about statistics, if I’m being honest (I’m one of many who went into psychology with the goal of helping people through clinical counselling). My first impression was that statistics was just math. I was good at math so I wasn’t too concerned. However, what I encountered instead was some strange discipline with all these tests with different names, supposedly important numbers called p-values, and a framework these tied into called NHST…

A lot of claims about how the world works capitalize on phenomena that have nothing to do with how the world (e.g., http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2013/06/interpreting-unexpected-significant.html)

Mainly as something of a reference list for papers that try to improve statistical thinking:

• https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/03/12/psychologists-love-to-report-marginally-significant-results-according-to-a-new-analysis/amp/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245918771329
• The null ritual https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2101291/component/file_3080636/content
• https://www.ime.usp.br/~abe/lista/pdfVZSdqrML7E.pdf
• https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.198/
• https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.82/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19017432/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245919847202
• https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-2909.97.1.129
• https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-16/issue-3/Statistical-Modeling--The-Two-Cultures-with-comments-and-a/10.1214/ss/1009213726.full
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959354311429854
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828473/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245918770963
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1583913
• https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-applied-statistics/volume-15/issue-3/The-ASA-presidents-task-force-statement-on-statistical-significance-and/10.1214/21-AOAS1501.full
• https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-statistics/volume-33/issue-1/Analysis-of-variancewhy-it-is-more-important-than-ever/10.1214/009053604000001048.full
• https://pages.ucsd.edu/~cmckenzie/Simonsohnetal2014JEPGeneral.pdf
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00536.x