Wizard for Mac – new kind of statistics program
Apart from being literally the opposite of where I think statistics should be headed (i.e. I see the notion of &quot;removal of &#x27;complicated statistics knowledge&#x27;&quot; to be more dangerous than helpful), I also had some practical feedback from watching the 12 minute intro video.<p>-Firstly, how does the visualization know the respective population or sample size from which the summary statistics and intervals are to be drawn?<p>- The demo used a pie chart to try to display summary stats and confidence intervals from the general social survey.   Aside from professional statisticians general dislike of pie charts, you cannot plot confidence intervals in this way into a pie chart just by inserting &#x27;more white space between the slices&#x27;.  There&#x27;s only 100% of the area of the circle that you&#x27;ve got to play with, so any attempt to increase the &#x27;white space&#x27; between the slices necessarily warps the real estate remaining to represent each actual slice.<p>- Honestly, I see this tool likely to be used by people who participate in the practice of p-hacking, whether deliberately or not.  The ability to throw lots of simple models quickly at lots of data mindlessly reporting some notion of statistical significance is dangerous.  I&#x27;m assuming your stats are not (cannot) be adjusted in any fashion to implicate what you&#x27;re really doing by using an automated model-building&#x2F;reporting regime in this way (potentially running heaps of models on heaps of data until you find one that appears &#x27;significant&#x27; based on a statistical test designed under the assumption that this is NOT what you&#x27;re doing).  No where did i see any application of train&#x2F;test, sample&#x2F;resample type methods to try to control for over-fitting in the prediction application or truly estimate how predictive&#x2F;replicable such a technique would be in the real world.<p>While I appreciate the work done required to put something like this together (a lot of it looks like a gui interface to my own exploratory functions&#x2F;scripts in R, for example), i genuinely believe this approach is more dangerous&#x2F;likely to lead to false conclusions than helpful.