Utts, Jessica. • 2016 Current Era • overview
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In a rare mainstream moment, the president of the American Statistical Association used her keynote to discuss why good data gets ignored -- and yes, she went there with psychic research. Drawing on Kahneman's framework of mental shortcuts (fast gut-feeling versus slow careful thinking), she showed even trained scientists botch statistics: nearly 90% of research psychologists misjudge how much data they need. Having worked on the CIA's remote viewing program, she knew the psychic data were statistically strong yet dismissed without a glance. Her fix is wonderfully human: pair numbers with compelling stories, because data alone rarely changes minds.
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Utts, Jessica. (2016). Appreciating Statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1250592
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@article{utts_2016_appreciating,
title = {Appreciating Statistics},
author = {Utts, Jessica.},
year = {2016},
journal = {Journal of the American Statistical Association},
doi = {10.1080/01621459.2016.1250592},
}