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There’s an ancient haiku that goes:<\/p>\n
People confuse a<\/em> Ok, that’s not true.<\/p>\n But Jake Hofman<\/a>, Dan Goldstein<\/a>, and Jessica Hullman<\/a> have a new paper (recently accepted at CHI 2020<\/a>) about this.<\/p>\n They bet you’ll think the results of their paper look are more impressive if you look at the plot on the left pane than if you look at the one on the right.<\/p>\n At least that what the results of their paper say.<\/p>\n Preprint here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/353kBtj<\/a><\/p>\n There’s only a limited number of PDFs available, so grab one today.<\/p>\n Ok, that’s not true either.<\/p>\n Special thanks to @iamwillcai<\/a> and @_JenAllen<\/a> for their RAship on this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STANDARD ERRORS VS STANDARD DEVIATIONS Click to enlarge There’s an ancient haiku that goes: People confuse a well-estimated mean with a certain outcome Ok, that’s not true. But Jake Hofman, Dan Goldstein, and Jessica Hullman have a new paper (recently accepted at CHI 2020) about this. They bet you’ll think the results of their paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[1827,1852,1700,208,294,1845,1846,968,1848,1853,1849,441,1850,1847,1851],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-ideas","tag-1827","tag-certain","tag-chi","tag-goldstein","tag-hofman","tag-hullman","tag-inferential","tag-mean","tag-mislead","tag-outcome","tag-readers","tag-results","tag-scientific","tag-uncertainty","tag-well-estimated"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1PF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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