Popularizing tiny effects
I found my way to Mark Liberman's post at Language
Cause-effect
Three complaints about medical journalism
It's very frustrating to read journalism about health and medicine.
Structural unemployment in black and white
A popular argument is circulating out there. You may have heard this
Why should we care about these studies?
Reader Joe M. points us to this article from Slate (via Kottke)
Calling something a spade doesn't make it a spade
Andrew Gelman pointed readers of his blog to a really great press
Census 101 will help you avoid statistical fallacies
As an engineering undergrad, we had to take prerequisites in mathematics, physics,