statistics
Prompts tagged with "statistics"
Sanity-Check an Analysis Before You Share It
Reviews a finished analysis the way a skeptical reader would — checking the definitions, the sample, the confounds, and whether the conclusion is a...
Estimate a Number You Have No Data For
Builds a defensible estimate by decomposing an unknown into knowable parts, bounding each one, and testing which assumption the answer actually dep...
Write a Survey That Produces Usable Data
Writes survey questions that don't lead, don't stack two questions in one, and produce answers you can actually analyze — with the sampling and non...
Choose a Chart That Tells the Truth
Picks the right chart for what you're actually comparing, then audits it for the distortions that mislead without lying — truncated axes, dual scal...
Check Whether a Difference Is Real or Just Noise
Applies significance reasoning to observational data — segment comparisons, period-over-period changes, group differences — where no experiment was...