> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient (based on data of the sample)
> Null Statistical Hypothesis Testing (NHST), another one of the pillars of STATS 101
Best practices of statistics and what is taught in Stat 101 are not remotely the same thing. The problems with R^2 and NHST have been well documented they've been argued against for decades by the statistics community. But actual statisticians make up a small proportion of statistics practitioners, as statistics is the backbone of nearly all modern science. What gets taught in Stats 101 is not the "foundations of statistical best practices" so much as "a system of guidelines and rules of thumb that have been simplified greatly for the sake of the lowest common denominator". To make things worse, non-statisticians seem to over-estimate their statistical knowledge and prowess after having taken a handful of introductory stats courses more than any applied field I know of.
Only now after the magnitude and pervasiveness of the replication crisis has begun to be recognized by the broad scientific community are people starting to realize what many statisticians have been pointing out for years.
> Null Statistical Hypothesis Testing (NHST), another one of the pillars of STATS 101
Best practices of statistics and what is taught in Stat 101 are not remotely the same thing. The problems with R^2 and NHST have been well documented they've been argued against for decades by the statistics community. But actual statisticians make up a small proportion of statistics practitioners, as statistics is the backbone of nearly all modern science. What gets taught in Stats 101 is not the "foundations of statistical best practices" so much as "a system of guidelines and rules of thumb that have been simplified greatly for the sake of the lowest common denominator". To make things worse, non-statisticians seem to over-estimate their statistical knowledge and prowess after having taken a handful of introductory stats courses more than any applied field I know of.
Only now after the magnitude and pervasiveness of the replication crisis has begun to be recognized by the broad scientific community are people starting to realize what many statisticians have been pointing out for years.