Kaleidoscope

Nature asked six eminent statisticians to describe the root cause problems with current practices. 7 Leek describes how methods designed for simple, multiple variables and small expensive-to-collect data have been ‘jury rigged’ to be applied to massive sets of variables with orders-of-magnitude greater samples, but our understanding of how human cognitive processes cope with such data (and analysis) has not kept pace. [...]Goodman suggests that the problem is with norms of practice in different disciplines. [...]statistics do not make false positives, people do. [...]MeToo was a defining cultural shift from 2017, and with multiple levels of irony the movement trumped Trump to Time magazine's Person of the Year.