Born in Japan and immigrating to the heart of Ohio at the age of four, I’ve always been drawn to making things with my hands. However, it was hard to find depictions of people who looked like me in the media or in the pictures I was consuming. I clung onto anything that felt like it was representative of my background — from iterations of Sailor Moon scribbled into the ends of my jackets or my picture books to the few paragraphs in my Art History 101 class about ukiyo-e prints, a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Literally meaning “Pictures of the Floating World,” ukiyo-e refers to a style of Japanese woodblock print and painting from the Edo period depicting famous theater actors, beautiful courtesans, city life, and travel in romantic landscapes.
Why Overlapping Confidence Intervals mean Nothing about Statistical Significance
The statement above is wrong. Overlapping confidence intervals/error bars say nothing about statistical significance. Yet, many make the mistake of inferring a lack of statistical significance.…