Thankfulness and Statistics

Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful

Dynomight | 27th November 2025

Charmingly specific list. Cardamom tastes expensive and is cheap. When disposed of correctly, disposable plastic is carbon sequestration. About 1% of all humans that have ever lived enjoyed free elections, the rule of law, and civil liberties; that number is now closer to 10%. When things don’t go our way, we can always turn to the comfort of sleep, “a pause that’s somehow neither experienced nor skipped” (1,400 words)

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The Case For Ending Statistical Significance

Davidson Heath | Reason | 1st December 2025

The obsession with statistical significance has misled many sciences into false-positive findings and bias. An alternative might be “estimation culture”, courtesy of William Gosset, who devised a formula using small-sample estimates for quality control in Guinness beer. “Any series of experiments is only of value in so far as it enables us to form a judgement as to the statistical constants of the population” (3,000 words)