"If we remove the samples that we don't like, we get the result we want!"
Note: I'm not a fan of reading too much into studies, but come on.
Note: I'm not a fan of reading too much into studies, but come on.
See http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23011/figures/1
An outlier group of mathy kids turn out to have poor (but not the poorest) empathy skills. The rest of the cohort isn't skewed, at all.
I think it is entirely fair to say that some oddball subgroup is skewing the results. It is no different from discussing mean, median and mode in real estate data.
Ever heard of the book "How to lie with statistics"?
That seems debatable as you have taken the time to comment on this story multiple times. I guess we all have opinions though.
If not, it would be extremely nice if more people followed not only the letter of the guidelines here but also the spirit and didn't engage in ad hominems or other smear campaigns.