Tag: Statistical interpretation

If you record noise, you don’t get music – you get nonsense.

Many women, no Cry by Marcel Kuntz 29 April 2011 A recent publication by Aziz Aris and Samuel Leblanc in the journal Reproductive Toxicology (Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to Genetically Modified Foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada) claims to have detected traces of: herbicides (used on herbicide tolerant ‘genetically modified’ plant…

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GMO Statistics Part 11: To find a harm you have to measure harm

Gilles- Eric Seralini has won a court case in Paris over the issue of whether his funding by Greenpeace may have influenced his scientific judgement. Richard Hudson of ABC radio in Western Australia interviewed Seralini on this matter[link to ABC webpage], and also asked David Tribe to comment about the merits of Seralini’s scientific arguments…

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GMO statistics Part 10: the King of Hearts is NOT equivalent to the King of England

Repeatedly claims are being made about food safety based on searches for differences between foods based on the concept of statistical significance (see for example Academics Review Genetic Roulette 1.3). In many cases the differences that are claimed are not even statistically significant because the wrong statistical models are used. Quite often the assumptions used…

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