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Diversity discussions often end up in debates over statistics, arguing whether data is valid without considering whether it's relevant and applicable. Resist the urge to segment people into binary pools. We're all in the relevant statistical segment.

If there are other civilizations in the Universe, then why, after 60 years of looking, haven't we found any evidence of their existence? Statistical analysis suggests that if Earth is typical, then it isn't possible for any other technological civilizations…

A nice people-of-color-in-tech activist once told me that when I come to America, my identity is stripped and I become a white male. Grouping by nationality, he said, is too arbitrary. You can’t just conjure arbitrary identities so you can feel special. Even…

Official Full-Text Paper (PDF): Justify your alpha: a response to "Redefine statistical significance"

Blake McShane, David Gal, Christian Robert, Jennifer Tackett, and I wrote a short paper arguing for the removal of null hypothesis significance testing from its current gatekeeper role in much of science. We begin: In science publishing and many areas of…

A new paper in Nature Human Behaviour has generated lots of debate. In Redefine Statistical Significance, authors Daniel J. Benjamin and colleagues suggest changing the convention that p-values below 0.05 are called ‘significant’. Instead, they suggest, the…

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<p>Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by radiocarbon calibration curves and measurement uncertainty. And there’s never been…

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, and Colin McFarland