Lies, Damn Lies, and Health Statistics
Category: Statistics
Giuliani cites some bogus statistics. Kerfuffle ensues. (This article includes actual statistics to prove a point about complexity.)
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:09 AM • 8 Comments •
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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Statistics:
Men and Women Cannot Can Have Different Average Numbers of Sexual Partners
Category: Statistics
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:39 AM • 51 Comments •
Crazy Useful Paper on Statistics
Category: Statistics
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:57 AM • 5 Comments •
