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“Statistical Significance” and Statistical Reporting: Moving Beyond Binary
Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the default approach to statistical analysis and reporting in marketing and the biomedical and social sciences more broadly. Despite its default role, NHST has long been criticized by both statisticians and applied researchers, including those within marketing. Therefore, the authors propose a major transition in statistical analysis and reporting. Specifically, they propose moving beyond binary: abandoning NHST as the default approach to statistical analysis and reporting. To facilitate this, they briefly review some of the principal problems associated with NHST. They next discuss some principles that they believe should underlie statistical analysis and reporting. They then use these principles to motivate some guidelines for statistical analysis and reporting. They next provide some examples that illustrate statistical analysis and reporting that adheres to their principles and guidelines. They conclude with a brief discussion.
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers
Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
US Domestic Policy Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Explore US domestic policies and their impact on public health across all branches of government.
Fact Sheet 3: ME/CFS: Information for Medical Professionals
Fact Sheet 3: ME/CFS: Information for Medical Professionals Published December 2025 Link to pdf: ME/CFS: Information for Medical Professionals.pdf Discussion thread: Fact sheet #3: Information...
Avoidable mortality, risk factors and policies for tackling noncommunicable diseases – leveraging data for impact: monitoring commitments in the WHO European Region ahead of the Fourth United Nations High-Level Meeting
The report notes that, in order to tackle NCDs and address the commercial, social, environmental and digital determinants of health, there is a need for accelerated multisectoral whole-of-government and whole-of-society action, integrated policies, enhanced preventive measures and strengthened health systems.
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.
Chris Beiser on Twitter / X
it'd be interesting to quantify the rate at which unaffiliated reddit users have improved on the state of the art for treatment protocols for diseases. my guess is that for 75% of diseases, they're responsible for a greater QoL increase than pharmaceutical companies over 10 years— Chris Beiser (@ctbeiser) June 7, 2021
Claim denial rates from health insurers have been declining (maybe) - Kevin Drum
I'll have our last ACS chart later, but in the meantime I happened to run across some actual data about health insurer claim denial rates, the topic du jour since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in broad daylight, allegedly in part because of his company's astronomical denial rate. These figures come from ACA transparency data and is limited…
The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise ( RWE ‐ DE )
Purpose The US Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel Innovation Center aimed to establish a query-ready, quality-checked distributed data network containing electronic health records (EHRs) linked...
The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise ( RWE ‐ DE )
Purpose The US Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel Innovation Center aimed to establish a query-ready, quality-checked distributed data network containing electronic health records (EHRs) linked...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations (Published 2025)
A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.
KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI For Health Information and Advice | KFF
This poll finds that about as many adults are turning to AI for health information as social media, with health care costs and access driving many users, particularly younger users.
New chart on my stats page! 📊 The set of PDSes is manually selected to show those which are open and have enough users to show up at all, I will be updating it over time. I don't have historical post data to count per PDS further than a few weeks back. blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_pds_chart
