https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/730854730335846400 (If you can't see the picture embedded in the tweet, click here for the original.) The axes are "Percent of men non-employed" by "Percent of births to unmarried women".…

Health signs The alternate title to today's post, suggested by reader Kip Hansen, is "Data scientists find connections between birth month and health". Don't scoff. We're talking peer review and…

One paper reports, "People who watch porn more than once a week tend to become more religious, a researcher claims, while those who watch racy videos occasionally tend to drift…

I just discovered a written comment, actually two, on my sketch-paper "The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill". Now when I…

Update 13 August 2019 The paper has been retracted! Welcome Guardian readers. You should understand this poor study is one of thousands, all of which make similar mistakes. See the…

https://twitter.com/learnfromerror/status/638841417461276672 Short note today, because today, and most days for the next couple of weeks, are book days. I am nearly finished with the damned thing. I'm now handling drudgery…