Use of statistics in setting insurance rates
Reader Mark Johnstone, from across the pond, points me to some fascinating
Cause-effect
A no-difference conclusion arises after positive findings are explained away
The recent articles proclaiming the death of organic foods could as well
The causation creep
If you're reading this blog, you probably have heard that
Dropping out dropouts is a mischievous act
The following throw-away lines in a Wall Street Journal article about the
The inevitable perversion of measurement
Supposedly one of the tactics in the fight against obesity is to
Popularizing tiny effects
I found my way to Mark Liberman's post at Language