beep@piefed.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMore than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understandingwww.psu.eduexternal-linkmessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey’re not wrong in that casinos use statistical analysis to detect card counters, but I’m relatively confident they didn’t invent it.
minus-squaremakeshift0546@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThey didn’t, and as others have suggested, how to come up with p value can differ depending on the experiment.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI was more hedging against someone popping up with “Actually, in ancient Mesopotamia…”
They’re not wrong in that casinos use statistical analysis to detect card counters, but I’m relatively confident they didn’t invent it.
They didn’t, and as others have suggested, how to come up with p value can differ depending on the experiment.
I was more hedging against someone popping up with “Actually, in ancient Mesopotamia…”