[bjelkeman-again]

I agree that more advanced statistical methods would be useful. A surprising number of scientists have poor knowledge about statistics whilst being dependent on it to prove their research.

[Fomite]

If anyone is depending on statistics to "prove" anything, they're in trouble.

[bjelkeman-again]

How do you prove that a medicine is safe and effective if not through large scale studies, which you then use statistics to show whether your hypotesus was correct or not?

[wolfgke]

With statistics I can definitely prove that something holds with a confidence, of, say 0,95, under the model assumptions [...].

[eli_gottlieb]

If you mistake the p-value on a frequentist hypothesis test for a Bayesian posterior probability, you've already messed up.

[marktangotango]

Touche, 95% of people who prove things on the internet use statistics.