However, this strategy is prone to the "p-value fallacy" in which effects and interactions are classified as either "noise" or "real" based on whether the associated p value is greater or less than .05. This dichotomous classification can lead to dramatic misconstruals of the evidence ...
Newspaper article from Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia) Article detailsBeginning of article CONGRATULATIONS Labor and Greens, we now have a carbon tax. This extra burden on Australians is based on flawed science and hidden agendas. We haven't experienced the bite from our carbon tax...
This book isfordetectives-fallacy detectives.We've designedthisbook to be a handy manualforspotting the fallacies you meetinthe street,inthe newspaper,orinyourself.The goalofthisbook is to help answer the question:What is bad reasoning?We also hope you will find that using your head is fun. ...
which occurs when someone makes a mistakeintheir thinking process.Conversation between Dad and Johnny:Dad:People nowadays don'tthink enough.Johnny:I'mnot sure about that,Dad.Iusemy head a lot when playing soccer.The conversation illustrates a father'sconcern that people today might not think cri...
By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson As a serious financial reform debate heats up in the Senate, defenders of the new banking status quo in the United States today – more highly concentrated than before 2008, with six megabanks implicitly deemed “too big
1.“In biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.”—Newspaper columnist (Presumably, something is being omitted about when the man has the wives.)2.In a church: Would parishioners please note that the bowl to the rear of the church that says ...