This is a thread on statistics in science: 1/7 (via @LogicofScience)

Basic
Statistics Part 1: The Law of Large Numbers https://t.co/wUH8eAAIak

#Science #Statistics

Basic Statistics Part 2: Correlation vs. Causation

https://t.co/Azhyl8pDsX (2/7)
Basic Statistics Part 3: The Dangers of Large Data Sets: A Tale of P values, Error Rates, and Bonferroni Corrections

https://t.co/LetN6aEBRM (3/7)
Basic statistics part 4: understanding P values

https://t.co/K8MMMgTCOf (4/7)
Basic Statistics Part 5: Means vs Medians, Is the “Average” Reliable?

https://t.co/xDdsknlZyt
(5/7)
Basic Statistics Part 6: Confounding Factors and Experimental Design

https://t.co/yGxTh2HPf9 (6/7)
When can correlation equal causation?

https://t.co/Vl3JmC8NMe (7/7)
While you are here, also have a look at this thread on rules of logic:

https://t.co/OtVrL0nyIl
Thanks for your patience.

May be mark this thread too for reading later? One on logical fallacies: https://t.co/Z7S9kNsFoI

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The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.