I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.

Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."

The Bayesian resistance against NHST may be noble, but it is basically lost

The answer to all my problems in life. Complicated two-step estimation procedure? Bootstrap it. Messed up distributional assumptions? Bootstrap it. Interpersonal conflict? Let me just quickly bootstrap this.

Fair, but I guess this is a topic that we have to drill into students so that they get it right?

And ultimately, what are we doing if our students do not develop a deep appreciation for the bootstrap?

IMO the most useful interpretation of the CI is as the set of values for which we cannot reject the null hypothesis at the 95% level.

This said, understanding the proper (i.e., frequentist) interpretation of the CI helps in my view to understand the logic behind resampling methods

Fresh socks - in this economy? What's next, underwear without holes?

Tough on the French

The test should simply consists of a series of encounters with increasingly less polite people to see whether you are sufficiently well integrated to have mastered the acceptable expressions of raising your eyebrows, quiet huffing and, at it's worst, barely audible tutting

Never mind the p-values, who cares about mediation that explains 5% or less of what is not a huge effect?