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colechristensen on Nov 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don't like this cartoon

While it's true (and should be obvious) that a competent statistician wouldn't make such silly mistakes, there are quite a few scientists who are not-so-competent statisticians who publish results with those exact errors.

Evbn on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Including the entire A/B testing world, from startup to Amazon.com and big banks. (Source: working with all three.)

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