People love to talk about the pitfalls of statistics and how we can "lie" with it. Those people don’t do statistics. In science, statistics is often quite difficult. It's there to help us with very complicated problems, not to hurt others with simple craven power leveragings.
The Dawdlers discuss the positive side of this dichotomy through a paper by the mid-to-late 20th Century statistician George E.P. Box. Here, he forays into the big vistas of Science and Statistics with his mantra in hand--"All models are wrong, but some are useful." Through discussions of an exemplar, the infamous early 20th Century “scientist” (who was also his father-in-law), R.A. Fisher, Box unpacks the statistical insights of his century's deepest dives into epistemology.
Bring an extra pair of socks, muck rakers, things are about to get saturated.
00:02:26 – Science and Statistics by G.E.P. Box / Box’s bumper sticker / Ryan has no plan / More “what is science?” shit
00:19:50 – What is statistics? / Qualitative data
00:33:56 – Who is R.A. Fisher? / Experimental design / Basic concepts in statistics
00:58:32 – Using English to express math / Mathematistry and cookbookery / Trying to control complicated systems
01:10:32 – Does one need advanced math to address complicated problems / Ryan wants to know how to speak math equations well in English / Thinking in words vs thinking in pictures
01:26:10 – Harland has two things to say still / Harland is paranoid Box is talking about him / Mathematical modeling
E47: On Margin Haunting - Quo Bros, Margin Haunters, & Secular Gurus
Shorts - E33: The World
Dear Dawdler - E5: To Every Philosophy There Is A Season
E46: 10 Things To Hate About Nonfiction Books
E45: Dawdler Review - Triamonds, Episodic Synchronies, and NME Skeptics!
Dear Dawdler - E4: We Live in a Context (So I See)
Dear Dawdler - E3: We Live in a (Complex) Society
Shorts - E32: Putting Thumbs on a Penguin
Dear Dawdler - E2: We Are All in the Same Boat
Dear Dawdler - E1: We Are All Mutineers
Shorts - E31: The Two Cultures
Shorts - E30: The American Dream
E44: Subjective Chiroptera of Experience - Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to Be a Bat?"
Haunting the Margins - E3: Alan Watts
E43: Rorty's Mirror of Nature Part II - Dividing by Zero
E42: Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - Part I - An Ironic Kind of Fellow
Shorts - E29: The Great Server
E41: Every Theory of Everything Ever - The Evolution of Religions
Shorts - E28: Science NOW!
Shorts - E27: Luck vs. Karma
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