Carl T. Bergstrom on Nostr: I just read the best paper I've seen yet this year, Sam Zhang's work on confusion ...
I just read the best paper I've seen yet this year, Sam Zhang's work on confusion between inferential uncertainty and outcome variability.
In the context of a trial or experiment, inferential uncertainty refers to our statistical confidence that two groups are different. Outcome variability refers to how much variation there is in individual outcomes within a single group.
IMO confusion about this is ubiquitous in biomedical science.
Here's the paper:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5tcgs/Published at
2023-04-27 00:18:56Event JSON
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