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mk  ·  4827 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics?
It's funny. I am at my desk and in front of me I have some data that falls exactly into what this article talks about.

To make matters worse, my detected effect between my treatment group and control is about a 7% difference. I've got a 97.9% confidence interval, but my colleague and I were just commenting on how reviewers won't be impressed with any kind of visualization of that data. He joked that the y axis should start at 0.9.

Luckily this data isn't a central piece of the study, but this is the kind of stuff that goes on behind a publication.