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Misc. Thingies
Articles
Put articles with stats in here.
- Ben Goldacre's article on the "flood" of cocaine in British playgrounds. (Winner of the Royal Statistical Society's 2007 Award for Statistical Excellence in Journalism.)
- Matthew Parris's article about standby power. (Runner-up in the Royal Statistical Society's 2007 Awards for Statistical Excellence in Journalism.)
- An article about those figures that crop up in newspaper reports saying things like "sick days cost the nation four bajillion dollars a week."
- Video games and surgical skill - causation or just correlation?
- Gambling in the UK - a couple of articles to convince you I wan't lying about gambling in the UK (though I did get a few of the numbers wrong).
- Chris Kirkland's family win GBP10,000 when he plays goalkeeper for England.
- Some betting options for the 2001 Grand National horse race.
- I grew up in a smallish suburb of Birmingham, called Walmley. A bookmaker was part of pretty much every row of shops. Here's a map of the 10 closest
- Dutch nurse scandal The article we talked briefly sbout in class.
- Yay, immortality (women only)
- A very interesting arcticle about IQ. It has some interesting statistics and how the theory of statistics was used to find a deviation from the bell curve in the IQ of young children.
Bad Graphs
- CNN had posted on their website a misleading graph. Media Matters published a small artcile regarding the graph. Subsequently said misrepresentation was altered to reflect a more accurate statement.
The graph has a few flaws in it, though it's fun to look at.
Pages
Lies, damned lies and quotations
- "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." Fletcher Knebel
- "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of the meagre and unsatisfactory kind." Lord Kelvin
- "A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances." A. L. Bowley
- "Statistics means never having to say you're certain." ?Myles Hollander?
- "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." Mark Twain
- "[Three statisticians are out duck-hunting.] The first fired and his shot sailed six inches over the duck. Then the second fired and his shot flew six inches below the duck. At this the third statistician excitedly exclaimed: 'We got it!'" John Allen Paulos
NNNNEW PAGE!!! AHHH! NEW YORK TIMES
So there's a pretty cool article in the New York Times today, this is the online version. The graphs and statistics are interesting, click on the slideshow to see all the graphs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/opinion/25schott.html ~Lucy
P.S. I can't figure out how to do it all fancy smanshy like all the rest of you