Eureka!

Format: Cartoons

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Language/s: English

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Target Audience: Self-directed learning

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Short Description:

Cherry picking the results of people in sub-groups can be misleading.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-12 サブグループ解析は誤解を招く可能性があります

Details

A take on a classic saying – can’t face the data mining boom without it! You can read about the dangers of data analyses that weren’t pre-planned and multiple testing (data dredging) here. Another important related read? Epidemiologist John Ioannidis’ “Why most published research findings are false.”

Text reproduced from http://statistically-funny.blogspot.co.uk/. Cartoons are available for use, with credit to Hilda Bastian.