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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug
I try chatting up statistics with health professionals I interact with all the time. The nurse at work doesn't know what "standard deviation" is. But I guess that's OK, she can tell me whether my blood pressure is within normal range and that does the job.
Right now in cognitive science researchers are reporting impossibly high correlation numbers in fMRI studies. This is damning.
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives...rrelations.php |
But each discipline has its own math. Economics uses econometrics which continues to expand.
As Mike pointed out, most researchers don't even understand the math used to conduct their own studies.