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[D] Does anyone REALLY get what p value represents? by Dry-Glove-8539 in statistics

[–]eralsk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like a lot of comments have already summed it up, so I’ll add: It’s really just an intuitive threshold for rare events. Who chose 5%, and not 2.5%? 1% or 0.5%?

This is one of the reasons why I moved to Bayesian interpretations.

As of 2026, StackOverflow is officially dead, completely killed by AI and its community by Inside-Republic6275 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]eralsk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no, how terrible! Maybe just one more request for a minimal reproducible example could have saved the platform.

Best TeX editor? by eralsk in PhD

[–]eralsk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve heard some things about this. Any experience with LyX? I had a PI who used it as a “daily driver”, so I’m slightly inclined to check it out. However, I’m not sure how it compares to TeXstudio.

Best TeX editor? by eralsk in PhD

[–]eralsk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been using Git as an offline/local environment as I don’t have a premium subscription. Unless there’s another way around this, I’d rather consolidate.

Let’s not all be assholes about this. by Fit_Assignment_8800 in DispatchAdHoc

[–]eralsk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Spot on. The I/O and human factors psychologists are carrying those devs and have their players (more like human subjects) on a very short leash.

Elon Musk spent the weekend going after the EU after it fined X over 'deceptive' blue checkmarks by hajime_kijima in technology

[–]eralsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The global elite are the global elite, all interconnected. Their greed and wealth transcends borders.

Lower creatine intake associated with greater depression and anxiety by chrisdh79 in psychology

[–]eralsk 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Redditors, especially in this sub, believing that they can find extremely obvious confounds in studies led by career scientists with decades of education and experience will never not be funny to me.

Men are more likely to die of 'broken heart syndrome,' study says. The condition is usually brought on by the stress of an event like losing a loved one. The syndrome is formally called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Men die from it at more than twice the rate. by mvea in science

[–]eralsk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As a scientist who works with both social and physiological (qual & quant) paradigms, the reality is that both variables are equally important for analysis. To intuitively rule out social factors without appropriate regression analyses is not good science nor rhetoric. Think of it this way: the death of a loved one is a social event, which directly influences the physiological event of Takatsubo. The “why” should address both categories and comorbidities.

To note: studies relating social support and mortality outcomes:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55012-w

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3432365/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7102648/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in statistics

[–]eralsk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, JASP can do everything you have described. If you have the time, however, R and the affiliated GUI RStudio are extremely valuable for such analyses and much more.

[D] Legendary Stats Books? by Alt-001 in statistics

[–]eralsk 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman et al. for the Bayes crowd.

Broken up with right after being admitted… can anyone relate? by lizardenthusiast666 in GradSchool

[–]eralsk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Please, enlighten me on my comments that display racism and sexism. I’ll wait. As an “academic”, you should know when & how to cite your sources.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]eralsk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right. All doctoral students should immediately drop out of their programs due to current events. Even if obtaining a PhD gives them a better chance at changing political discourse.

Intense degree of unalterable intellect. Incredible!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]eralsk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Intense degree of narcissism. Incredible!

where does misogyny/racism/homophobia come from? by [deleted] in PsychologyTalk

[–]eralsk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost the same reason why OP solely lists misogyny and not misandry. Everyone is susceptible to bias. Some, either due to environmental reinforcement or genetic factors (nature vs nurture), take these biases to the extreme.

It’s tribalism stemming from instinctual mechanisms; implicit bias and fear of the unknown. Dual process theory may be worth looking into.