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→In Search of the Truth: Who's Better?: rebuttal
There was a time senior year when a t-squared analysis on the number of victories each showed that Zach was, statistically, a superior cribbage player to Jonathan. Once that point was reached, Zach felt his point was proven and lowered his level of play, allowing Jonathan to win a few games and regain a bit of dignity... at least statistically speaking.
But then, what exactly is a "t-squared analysis"? Perhaps it is a fancy term for a t-test, a test to determine if the means of two normally distributed data sets are equivalent? If so, such a test was misapplied in this use, as there are no normal distributions to test. Now, a ''chi-squared'' analysis would have been something else entirely . . . the proper test to use in fact . . . but how much faith could we put in a statistician who could not even get the name of the test correct?
