Not to reignite the whole issue with DeSoto and Hitlan (here and here), but Epi Wonk emailed me an excellent critique of the paper. (The whole issue was about the relationship between mercury and autism. Ip, 2004 measured mercury levels...
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Posted on July 16, 2008 7:31 AM • 0 Comments •
Giuliani cites some bogus statistics. Kerfuffle ensues. (This article includes actual statistics to prove a point about complexity.)
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Posted on November 5, 2007 11:09 AM • 7 Comments •
I hadn't really ever thought about it, but surveys consistently report that heterosexual men have a larger number of sexual partners on average than heterosexual women. However, that really isn't logically possible, is it? I mean, last time I checked...
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Posted on August 14, 2007 8:39 AM • 51 Comments •
Want to know when to use Standard Deviation (SD) as opposed to Standard Error (SE) or a Confidence Interval (CI)? Then you should read this really useful paper in JCB about error bars in scientific papers. Here is just a...
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Posted on April 30, 2007 10:57 AM • 5 Comments •