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by Fomite 4188 days ago
If anyone is depending on statistics to "prove" anything, they're in trouble.
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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?
With statistics I can definitely prove that something holds with a confidence, of, say 0,95, under the model assumptions [...].
If you mistake the p-value on a frequentist hypothesis test for a Bayesian posterior probability, you've already messed up.
Touche, 95% of people who prove things on the internet use statistics.