Statistician to the Stars!
The general theory, methods, and philosophy of the Science of Guessing What Is.
Mitchell Langbert has some statistics of interest in the latest issue of Academic Questions. Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty. The picture which heads the post…
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, …I’d still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, “As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most“, a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
Video Link The Epidemiologist Fallacy marries the Ecological Fallacy with the P-value Fallacy. The Ecological Fallacy is when it is said X causes Y, but X is not measured, and…
From reader Nick L comes this question (in which I hope I have properly rendered the Greek): I am still regularly enjoying your blog. I notice one of your consistent…
YouGov has a survey out about American’s attitudes to Israel and Jews. There are some items of interest. I beg those who cannot bear any criticism of this country to…
Some men believe, or ardently pretend, they are women. And vice versa. These people are crazy. Not just a little crazy, but full-on bat guana gibbering remove-all-sharp-objects crazy. Compassionate people…
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity.…