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Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics
Kilrah_il writes "The linked article provides a short summary of the problems scientists have with statistics. As an intern, I see it many times: Doctors do lots of research but don't have a clue when it comes to statistics — and in the social science area, it's even worse. From the article: 'Even when performed correctly, statistical tests are widely misunderstood and frequently misinterpreted. As a result, countless conclusions in the scientific literature are erroneous, and tests of medical dangers or treatments are often contradictory and confusing.'"
You take thousands of temperature readings over hundreds of years and come up with trends and that is not statistics?
The model merely jiggers with the numbers, but the statistics ultimately tells you the trend.
For instance in Australia where they too readings from several surrounding stations and came up with numbers for imaginary stations or corrected numbers for real stations... that's not stats?
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