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Your intuitions are not magic - LessWrong

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People who know a little bit of statistics - enough to use statistical techniques, not enough to understand why or how they work - often end up horribly misusing them. Statistical tests are complicat…

x Your intuitions are not magic — LessWrong Intuition Emotions Fallacies Heuristics & Biases Rationality Frontpage 164 Your intuitions are not magic by Kaj_Sotala 10th Jun 2010 4 min read 42 164 People who know a little bit of statistics - enough to use statistical techniques, not enough to understand why or how they work - often end up horribly misusing them. Statistical tests are complicated mathematical techniques, and to work, they tend to make numerous assumptions. The problem is that if those assumptions are not valid, most statistical tests do not cleanly fail and produce obviously fals

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