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

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

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<http://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<mailto:Jemille6 at vt.edu)or>) or Margherita Harris (M.Harris2 at lse.ac.uk<mailto: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.

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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/>.

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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<mailto: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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