[spsp-members] Sessions 3 & 4: The Statistics Wars and Their Casualties workshop (ONLINE Dec 1 & 8)

Tue Nov 15 20:28:18 UTC 2022

Dear SPSP Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the events and speakers for Sessions 3 & 4 of *The
Statistics Wars and Their Casualties *online workshop
(Phil-Stat-Wars.com). Both
sessions will be held on Thursdays from 15:00 to 18:15 pm London time/10:00
am – 1:15 pm EST, on *December 1 and 8* respectively. Please see the
general overview below.

*To register for the workshop*, please fill out the form at this link
<https://phil-stat-wars.com/registration-the-statistics-wars-and-their-casualties-workshop-conference-22-23-september-at-the-london-school-of-economics/>
. (If you registered for the first half of the workshop, you do not need to
register again.) We are pleased to report that we had over 400 attendees at
the first two sessions. The *slides and videos* from Sessions 1 and 2 of
the workshop are posted online here
<https://phil-stat-wars.com/2022/10/10/the-statistics-wars-and-their-casualties-videos-slides-from-sessions-1-2/>.
Please check for updates to the schedule here
<https://phil-stat-wars.com/3-tentative-schedule/>. For questions, please
contact: Jean Miller (Jemille6 at vt.edu <Jemille6 at vt.edu)or>) or Margherita
Harris (M.Harris2 at lse.ac.uk).

We would be very grateful if you would forward this e-mail to interested
colleagues.

Warmest Wishes,

D. Mayo

R. Frigg

M. Harris

*GENERAL OVERVIEW*

*December 1*

*Session 3* (Moderator: Daniël Lakens, Eindhoven University of Technology)

*OPENING *

*"What Happened So Far":* A medley (20 min) of recaps from Sessions 1
& 2: Deborah
Mayo (Virginia Tech), Richard Morey (Cardiff), Stephen Senn (Edinburgh),
Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven), Christian Hennig (Bologna) & Yoav Benjamini (Tel
Aviv).

*SPEAKERS*

   - *Daniele Fanelli *(London School of Economics and Political Science) *The
   neglected importance of complexity in statistics and Metascience  *(
   Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/fanelli-abstract-1.pdf>
   )
   - *Stephan Guttinger* (University of Exeter) *What are questionable
   research practices? *(Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/guttinger-abstract.pdf>
   )
   - *David J. Hand* (Imperial College, London) *What’s the question? *(
   Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/hand-abstract.pdf>)

*DISCUSSIONS*:

Audience and Panels

Closing Panel:* “Where Should Stat Activists Go From Here (Part i)?”*: Yoav
Benjamini, Daniele Fanelli, Stephan Guttinger, David Hand, Christian
Hennig, Daniël Lakens, Deborah Mayo, Richard Morey, Stephen Senn

*December 8*

*Session 4* (Moderator: Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech)

*SPEAKERS*

   - *Jon Williamson *(University of Kent) *Causal inference is not
   statistical inference *(Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/williamson-abstract-1.pdf>
   )
   - *Margherita Harris* (London School of Economics and Political Science) *On
   Severity, the Weight of Evidence, and the Relationship Between the Two *(
   Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/harris-abstract.pdf>)
   - *Aris Spanos *(Virginia Tech)* Revisiting the Two Cultures in
   Statistical Modeling and Inference as they relate to the Statistics Wars
   and Their Potential Casualties *(Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/spanos-abstract.pdf>)
   - *Uri Simonsohn *(Esade Ramon Llull University)* Mathematically Elegant
   Answers to Research Questions No One is Asking (meta-analysis, random
   effects models, and Bayes factors) *(Abstract
   <https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/simonsohn-abstract-1.pdf>
   )

*DISCUSSIONS*;

Audience and Panels

Closing Panel: *“Where Should Stat Activists Go From Here (Part ii)?”*:
Workshop Participants: Yoav Benjamini, Alexander Bird, Mark Burgman,
Daniele Fanelli, Stephan Guttinger, David Hand, Margherita Harris,
Christian Hennig, Daniël Lakens, Deborah Mayo, Richard Morey, Stephen Senn,
Uri Simonsohn, Aris Spanos, Jon Williamson.

*The Statistics Wars*

*and Their Casualties*

*1 December and 8 December 2022*

*15:00-18:15 pm London Time *

*ONLINE*

*To register for the workshop,*

*please fill out **the registration form here*
<https://phil-stat-wars.com/registration-the-statistics-wars-and-their-casualties-workshop-conference-22-23-september-at-the-london-school-of-economics/>

*. *

While the field of statistics has a long history of passionate foundational
controversy, the last decade has, in many ways, been the most dramatic.
Misuses of statistics, biasing selection effects, and high-powered methods
of big-data analysis, have helped to make it easy to find
impressive-looking but spurious results that fail to replicate. As the
crisis of replication has spread beyond psychology and social sciences to
biomedicine, genomics, machine learning and other fields, the need for
critical appraisal of proposed reforms is growing. Many are welcome
(transparency about data, eschewing mechanical uses of statistics); some
are quite radical. The experts do not agree on the best ways to promote
trustworthy results, and these disagreements often reflect philosophical
battles–old and new– about the nature of inductive-statistical inference
and the roles of probability in statistical inference and modeling.
Intermingled in the controversies about evidence are competing social,
political, and economic values. If statistical consumers are unaware of
assumptions behind rival evidence-policy reforms, they cannot scrutinize
the consequences that affect them. What is at stake is a critical
standpoint that we may increasingly be in danger of losing. Critically
reflecting on proposed reforms and changing standards requires insights
from statisticians, philosophers of science, psychologists, journal
editors, economists and practitioners from across the natural and social
sciences. This workshop will bring together these interdisciplinary
insights–from speakers as well as attendees.

*Speakers/Panellists:*

*Yoav Benjamini*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/yoav-benjamini-minibio.pdf>
 (Tel Aviv University), *Alexander Bird*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/alexander-bird-mini-bio-2021.pdf>(University
of Cambridge), *Mark Burgman*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/burgman-bio.pdf> (Imperial
College London),  *Daniele Fanelli*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/fanelli-bio.pdf> (London
School of Economics and Political Science), *Roman Frigg*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/frigg-mini-bio.pdf> (London
School of Economics and Political Science), *Stephan Guttinger*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/stephan-guttinger-2.pdf>
(London
School of Economics and Political Science), *David Hand*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/hand-bio.pdf> (Imperial
College London), *Margherita Harris*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/margherita-harris-mini-bio.pdf>
(London School of Economics and Political Science), *Christian Hennig*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/hennig-bio.pdf> (University
of Bologna), *Daniël Lakens*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/lakens-bio.pdf> (Eindhoven
University of Technology), *Deborah Mayo*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/deborah-mayo-bio-b.pdf>
(Virginia
Tech), *Richard Morey*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/morey-bio.pdf> (Cardiff
University), *Stephen Senn*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/senn-bio.pdf> (Edinburgh,
Scotland), *Uri Simonsohn* (Esade Ramon Llull University), *Aris
Spanos* (Virginia
Tech),  *Jon Williamson*
<https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/jon-williamson-minibio-2-1.pdf>
(University
of Kent)

*Sponsors/Affiliations:*

The Foundation for the Study of Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and
the Objectivity and Rationality of Science (E.R.R.O.R.S.); Centre for
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of
Economics; Virginia Tech Department of Philosophy

* Organizers*: D. Mayo, R. Frigg and M. Harris

*Logistician* (chief logistics and contact person): *Jean Miller*
<jemille6 at vt.edu>

*Executive Planning Committee:* Y. Benjamini, D. Hand, D. Lakens and S. Senn

*To register*
* for the workshop, *

*please fill out **the registration form here. *
<https://phil-stat-wars.com/registration-the-statistics-wars-and-their-casualties-workshop-conference-22-23-september-at-the-london-school-of-economics/>
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