Richard Nisbett is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan.
Edge has an interesting talk about the problems of research relying on regression analyses (seeThe Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis). Unfortunately, it has some important faults – not the least is his use of the term “multiple regression” when he was really complaining about simple regression analysis.
Professor Richard Nisbett quite rightly points out that many studies using regression analysis are worthless, even misleading – even, as he suggests, “quite damaging.” Damaging because these studies gets reported in the popular media and their faulty conclusions are “taken as gospel” by many readers. Nisbet says:
“I hope that in the future, if I’m successful in communicating with people about this, there’ll be a kind of upfront warning in New York Times articles: These data are based on multiple regression analysis…
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