The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...

Despite its widespread use in evaluation data analysis, statistical testing has come under persistent criticism resulting in calls for its rethinking, and even possible elimination (Carver, 1978, 1993 ...

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THERE are always a large number of persons engaged in searching for correlations between pairs of variables, most of which are, in fact, uncorrelated. From the way in which statistical tests of ...