Error Statistics Philosophy

30 years ago today, Chicago Press sent me a draft version of this cover for Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge for my approval (except the fuchsia and mustard in “ERROR” were switched). At first I thought it was so cartoony that it might be an April 1 joke! I had sent them a picture I drew (now in the preface), but they didn’t think that worked for a cove...

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Given how much I’ve blogged about the 2016 ASA p-value statement, the 2019 Executive Editor’s editorial in The American Statistician (TAS), the 2020 ASA (President’s) Task Force, and the various casualties of the related teeth pulling, I thought I should say something about the recent