Bernoulli\'s Fallacy
Bernoulli\'s Fallacy There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions…
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Bernoulli\'s Fallacy
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines.
Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations.Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics.