When did statistics jump the shark?

August 20, 2013

(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Statistics jumped the shark the moment they adopted the following definition, (Gelman & Hill, page 13): A probability distribution corresponds to an urn with a potentially infinite number of balls inside. When a ball is drawn at random, the “random variable” is what is written on the ball. for situations where no such “urn” or […]