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Thankyou Jiangang! A Ten-Year Journey to Significance Roulette
Jiangang Xia is an enterprising professor at the University of Nebraska who, among many other things, teaches into China. He alerted me some years ago to the difficulty his students in China had accessing my videos because YouTube was blocked for them. So I mou
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A Statistics Textbook for the AI Era
Miodrag Lovrić
Miodrag Lovrić is an enormously energetic statistician and educator. He persuaded 700 scholars from 110 countries to contribute to the massive four-volume second edition of the International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science (Springer, 2025).
Now he is close to completing Statistical Thinking for the
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/01/15/a-statistics-textbook-for-the-ai-era/
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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!
Bradley Dean
Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!
Bradley Dean
Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!
Bradley Dean
Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!
Bradley Dean
Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
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The p Value Casino Is Open–For Significance Roulette!
Bradley Dean
Excel 2003, the best version ever, was enshittified by MicroSoft in the 2007 version, which was way slower and dropped many wonderful animation facilities :-(. Even vast efforts would not get my great Significance Roulette simulation running in the n
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/29/the-p-value-casino-is-open-for-significance-roulette/
#ITNS #NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #TheNewStatistics
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And I found this...
#TheNewStatesman 4 feb 2019
What is #TurningPointUK? The launch of #rightwing youth group is going as well as expect
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John Self, AI Pioneer, Chats With ChatGPT
A Chat with ChatGPT by a veteran AI researcher
John Self entered the field of AI in the early 1970s. He's a distinguished scholar who can claim to have introduced the idea of user model in his 1974 article (while visiting The University of Melbourne). He was writing in the context of AI in Education, a fi
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/04/john-self-ai-pioneer-chats-with-chatgpt/
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A Significant Addition to My Wardrobe?
Or is it really?
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/10/12/a-significant-addition-to-my-wardrobe/
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Vale Michael Kubovy (1940-2025), Professor of Patterns
I don't think I ever met Michael, but have long known his Gestalt perception work. I now discover he did so much more, especially as a pioneer in data analysis. He and I would have agreed on many, many things.
This post is courtesy Alex Holcombe, who wrote:
A tribute to Mi
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/09/03/vale-michael-kubovy-1940-2025-professor-of-patterns/
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“The New Statistics” by INXS: Why Not?!
Thanks to Prof Dena A. Pastor, of James Madison University for this suggestion.
Whenever you hear the hit New Sensation, by Australian rock band INXS, replace "A new sensation" with "The New Statistics". This works for me (of course it would), even if the '80s are a bit recent for me.
Enjoy!
Geoff
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/03/the-new-statistics-by-inxs-why-not/
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‘The New Statistics’ (2013) Wins Sage 10-Year Impact Award
The New Statistics: Why and How (abstract below) explained the advantages of moving on from NHST to the new statistics (estimation and meta-analysis) and the need for better practices to improve research integrity. I'm delighted that an awar
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/07/04/the-new-statistics-2013-wins-sage-10-year-impact-award/
#ITNS #Metaanalysis #Metascience #NHST #OpenScience #Teaching #TheNewStatistics
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Booklisti. For Finding Interesting Books, Now Including ITNS2
Exploring Booklisti is a neat way to find good books to read.
Booklisti, would you believe, comprises lots of short lists of books that hang together. I have two lists, ITNS2 appearing in each. My first list is just UTNS, my first book, and ITNS2, our se
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Estimation, Open Science, and Bob’s Wonderful New esci
Our open access article just released at https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13132:
Highlights
Three dramatisations of the enormous unreliability of the p value. Can these help weaken researchers' addiction to NHST that has withstood more than half a centu
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/05/04/estimation-open-science-and-bobs-wonderful-new-esci/
#NHST #OpenScience #StatisticalGraphics #StatsTools #TheNewStatistics
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To Find Interesting Books, Explore shepherd.com, Now Including ITNS2
A couple of years back I posted (here) about shepherd.com, which has gone from strength to strength as an engaging way to browse books for interesting finds. I've updated our shepherd entry to ITNS2 and tweaked our recommendations, with Pennington's little gem on Op
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Vale Danny Kahneman, Giant of Statistical Cognition and Much Else
Danny Kahneman died on 27 March at 90. The APS announcement is here. I've posted about him before. The best quick read may be this 2016 New Yorker piece by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Thaler of Nudge fame.
He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for fo
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Vale Bob Rosenthal, Statistical Reform Leader and Much Else
I was much saddened to read of the death last month of Bob Rosenthal. See this obituary; and another in the New York Times.
I met him first in 1996 when I called on him at Harvard to discuss statistical reform. What a gentle, encouraging, and thoroughly nic
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Geoff’s Stats Passions: A BJKS Podcast
When Benjamin Kuper-Smith kindly invited me to chat with him for his podcast I warned him he'd have trouble shutting me up. Maybe Ben felt that, but I felt we had a pretty interesting chat about lots of great (imho) stats issues. The podcast is here.
There's an auto-generated transcript, and you can ho
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/11/30/geoffs-stats-passions-a-bjks-podcast/
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Beth Morling on the 2nd edition of ITNS
Yes, we're excited about the upcoming 2nd edition of Introduction to the New Statistics. Though we're not braggarts by nature, hard not to crow from this feedback from Beth Morling, author of the fantastic textbook Research Methods in Psychology, APS fellow, and the 2023 winner of the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teachi
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/11/28/beth-morling-on-the-2nd-edition-of-itns/
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Estimation in Neuroscience: Characterizing local circuits in the Inferior Colliculus
Here's more evidence that estimation is catching on in neuroscience, a beautiful paper in from Silveira et al. (2023) in The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper characterizes local functional circuitry in the inferior colliculus (I
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Free Online APA Conference on Teaching Research Excellence in Psychology, December 14th 2023 9:00am to 2:30pm EST
If you want to wrap up your winter semester with an invigorating online conference on teaching research excellence, you're in luck, as the APA's Teaching Research Excellence
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ITNS Second Edition: Now the Bookmark
For the second edition we are expecting copy editing in late October, then from late November we have just three weeks to correct the page proofs and make two indexes. Phew. Routledge estimates the book will be released (ebook, softback, hardback) by March.
Meanwhile bookmarks for the new edition are with my loca
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/09/24/itns-second-edition-now-the-bookmark/
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2nd Edition Now With Routledge!
Bob and I are delighted to report that we've submitted ITNS2 to the publisher. Routledge say to expect it 'early in 2024'. We're hoping they may have something in time for faculty making textbook decisions for the N. Hemisphere Spring Semester.
Not only a new cover design, but also: Bob's wonderful esci 1.0.1 i
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2023/08/13/2nd-edition-now-with-routledge/
#ITNS #StatsTools #Teaching #TheNewStatistics #Uncategorized
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Online Talks & Workshops, Feb 8-11: Stats Reform, Open Science, R
Archaeology?! Yes, but it's for everyone--registrations are coming from across science, and from students to seasoned researchers. All welcome. Opening keynote by Nicole Lazar of ASA 'beyond p < .05' fame. I'm speaking later on the first day.
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#NHST #OpenScience #Teaching #TheNewStatistics #Uncategorized
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Open Science: Free Zoom With the Experts Next Week
Definitely worth joining on 18 December, even if for me it's at 6.30am. Note the first three speakers also kindly gave generous endorsements of ITNS2, at the start of the book. OS leaders, for sure.
Info and registration here. The announcement:
In 2025, SIPS will hold its 10th annual meeting! In celebration of t
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/12/09/open-science-free-zoom-with-the-experts-next-week/
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Meet Petra: Enthusiasm for Archaeology, Open Science, and Better Statistics
Lunch with Petra Vaiglova
It was a pleasure to meet Petra Vaiglova a few days ago while she was in Melbourne for an archaeology conference. Fiona Fidler joined us for lunch--thanks to her for hosting.
Originally from the Czech Republic (C
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Choosing a Textbook Cover Design
It’s a delicious moment when the publisher sends a number of options their graphic designer has dreamed up for the cover. Below are the options for the three books. In each case, can you pick our choice? Our choices are below—don’t scroll down yet…
UTNS (2012) ...at left.
ITNS1 (2017) ...below.
ITNS
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/04/22/choosing-a-textbook-cover-design/
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‘Treasure’: Claire’s Gorgeous Resin Artwork
Treasure, at left, by Claire Layman, 150 × 50cm, resin on stretched canvas. Claire is an internationally recognised artist, also a longtime friend.
Walk into our living room and be struck by the vibrancy and depth of colour of Treasure, so much more alive than any small printed copy can be.
Claire ge
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/04/15/treasure-claires-gorgeous-resin-artwork/
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Fun with esci in R: The simple two-group design
esci is now available as a module in jamovi and as a package in R (JASP coming soon, hopefully). Let's have some fun with esci in R!
We'll start with a simple two-group design. Specifically, we'll use data from Experiment 4 of (Kardas & O’Brien, 2018). In this study, participants watched a video explaining how to do a
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2024/03/25/fun-with-esci-in-r-the-simple-two-group-design/