willpkay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Statistics @CardiffUni | Lifeboat Coxswain @SevernRescue | Advanced Instructor @BSAC | Commercial Skipper @RYA | Vegan | Republican | YesCymru | Remain | Pacifist | Green 💚
👤 Joined on 22 November 2024
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@willpkay.bsky.social#statstab #574 When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes Thoughts: The "it's fine to analyse likert/ordinal data with t-test" camp is not doing themselves any favours #ordinal #likert #probit #regression link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Show PostIt was great to host @willpkay.bsky.social! Is your department interested in how we teach essential quantitative and reasoning skills to ecologists? Invite Will to come talk!
Show PostBecause it's not important. If it was important, educational institutions would ensure it was done well. Otherwise you are just rolling the dice that you are taught by some small % of academics in any field that are good at teaching AND supported to be good at teaching.
Show PostAnd good luck trying to change a med school curriculum or move away from mean/modes/medians/nhst/good luck! Statistics is special because more than any other topic, it must be "made easy" as I have been told more than once.
Show PostLaunch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
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