Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design
Editorial: Springer Nature
Licencia: Creative Commons (by-nc)
Autor(es): Herzog, Michael; [et al.]
The modern world is inundated with statistics. Statistics determine what we eat, how we
exercise, who we befriend, how we educate our children, and what type of medical treatment we use. Obviously, statistics is ubiquitous and—unfortunately—misunderstandings
about statistics are too. In Chap. 1, we will report that judges at law courts come to wrong
conclusions—conclusions about whether or not to send people to prison—because they
lack basic statistical understanding. We will show that patients committed suicide because
doctors did not know how to interpret the outcome of medical tests. Scientists are often
no better. We know colleagues who blindly trust the output of their statistical computer
programs, even when the results make no sense. We know of published scientific papers
containing results that are incompatible with the theoretical conclusions of the authors
[Cham: 2019]
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