Hurricane insurance merry-go-round
The hurricane insurance business, 15 years later
NumbersRuleYourWorld
Doping pops up in the news
The world of anti-doping has interesting statistics
How would we know if Google engineers really improved traffic flow at intersections
It's not easy to measure the real-world impact of optimizations.
On the evidence raised by SAT distractors
Kaiser reads a series of blog posts about SAT testing.
Self-checkout and fast passes
Kaiser blows up the myth of self-checkouts.
Reading Gelman's take on election polling
Kaiser reads Andrew Gelman's paper about failures in election forecasting.