Talk of the—and I mean the—education bubble is everywhere. But nowhere is it more succinctly or beautifully demonstrated than in a picture created by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute. It […]
Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change
The headline boomed “CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)”. Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund. The opening line is a teaser, “PLEASE HELP […]
The United States of Diabetes?
More fun can be had with epidemiology than with any other branch of investigation. It’s the only science whose practitioners regularly jump out from behind the bushes yelling Boo! And even though […]
Victorian Book Title Statistics
How many times did the word “God” appear in the title of books published in England from the year 1789 to 1914? And how about “science”? And “truth”? Others? Well, Dan Cohen […]
New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy
New York City’s Health Department (motto: It’s for your own good!) released its annual birth and death statistics, and the internet is aflutter, particularly over the numbers on abortion. “Raw” statistics show […]
Planet Could Be ‘Unrecognizable’ By 2050: Doom Just Around The Corner
If you are in your 40s now, as yours truly is (am?), then by 2050 you and the rest of our cohort will be dead or in our 80s. If we last […]
Oscar Statistics: Money, Men, and Maturity; Plus Our Predictions
This article was written with the assistance of the very employable John Briggs, who did all the grunt work. Also see And The Winner Goes To…Oscar Statistics Wrap Up. Which is the […]
Global Average Temperature: What It Isn’t
Update See also: Global Average Temperature: An Exceedingly Brief Introduction To Bayesian Predictive Inference Word is going round that Richard Muller is leading a group of physicists, statisticians, and climatologists to re-estimate […]
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