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"Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics" (no mention of health/medicine specifically)

Dolphin

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I saw renegade psychologist James Coyne (@CoyneoftheRealm) highlight this on Twitter recently:


Be wary of scholars using high-powered statistical techniques as bludgeon to silence critics who are not specialists

Examples are generally economic ones so no specific relevance to health or medicine.


Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics

By Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers
May 1, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-01/six-ways-to-separate-lies-from-statistics.html