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Terrible Statistics Advice
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Fall in love with your models.
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The Central Limit Theorem probably applies to data drawn from a Cauchy distribution, whatever the naysayers may argue.
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Use Microsoft Excel to create all your charts.
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Yeah, that time series is probably stationary already, don't worry about it.
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Make yourself indispensable by making all your statistical analysis impossible to replicate.
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Save time and effort by training your model on the test data.
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Never normalize values. Units are important.
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Don’t worry so much about measurement error or missing data.
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Condition on a collider variable.
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Create a chart with a secondary vertical axis.
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Collect the data first, then worry about experimental design.
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Add more regressors to your model to increase R^2.
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Confounders are not real and cannot hurt you.
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Focus all your efforts on calculating point estimates.
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Illustrate a discrete time series using a chart with smooth lines.
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Remove all outliers before attempting any analysis.
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