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Five years ago on this day, a news correspondent at NPR, Richard Harris, published this article, the same day as Wasserstein et al., (2019). Moving to a world beyond “p < 0.05”. TAS, and Amrhein et al., (2019), Comment: Retire statistical significance. Nature. I was one of several people Harris interviewed for his article. He starts by talking of flip-flops regarding the healthfulness of eggs.
Statisticians say it may not be wise to put all your eggs in the significance basket.
A recent study that questioned the healthfulness of eggs raised a perpetual question: Why do studies, as has been the case with health research involving eggs, so often flip-flop from one answer to another? Continue reading
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