Science News on statistics

[Robert J. Hansen]

A while ago we had a discussion here about the use of statistics ---
particularly, Type II error rates.  It turns out that /Science News/ has
a pretty good article on statistics and its limitations
<http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong>. 
It's accessible to the layman: it might be a little much to swallow in
places, but by and large if you survived high school math you'll survive
the article.

If you don't want to click on the embedded link (and who could blame
you), then C&P this link:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong


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