 David Spiegelhalter is the Winton professor for the public understanding of statistics at the University of Cambridge. Statistics are based on probability. Here's what he said about that:
“Humans are very bad at understanding probability. Everyone finds it difficult, even I do.” (Read the full article on Quartz.)
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 Last week's post was the first of this regular series of blog posts: the "Statistics Tip of the Week". There are a number of see-saws (aka "teeter-totters" or "totterboards") like this in statistics that we'll be seeing in the coming weeks and months.
Here, we see that, as the Probability of an Alpha Error goes down, the Probability of a Beta Error goes up. Likewise, as the Probability of an Alpha Error goes up, the Probability of a Beta Error goes down. Statistics Tip of the Week: What's the Difference between a 2-Sample t-test and a Paired t-test?9/22/2016  Many folks are confused about this, especially since the names for these tests themselves can be misleading. What we're calling the "2-Sample t-test" is sometimes called the "Independent Samples t-test". And what we're calling the "Paired t-test" is then called the "Dependent Samples t-test", implying that it involves more than one Sample. But that is not the case. It is more accurate -- and less confusing -- to call it the Paired t-test.
 The book, Statistics from A to Z -- Confusing Concepts Clarified, will be published by Wiley on Oct. 24, 2016.
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