Our local dark matter stages a comeback
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Dark matter ruled out? Not so fast….
Remember “How to Lie with Statistics” ?
The tax Americans love
The most influential scientist ever
R.A. Fisher (By one measure)
The meaning of the Iowa Caucus results
From Snapshot of Volatile Political Scene Becomes Real
Students in statistics class place a great deal of emphasis on the mean, and have a very hard time grasping the fact that the confidence interval really conveys much more important information. The media pundits and, yes, the American voter seem to have the same problem.
Who is Santa Claus?
From PhD Comics.
“Need to prove something you already believe?”
Correlation may not imply causation, but it sure can help us insinuate it.
Fun graphs at Correlation or Causation?
From Ann Althouse.
Significant Figures
Measurement and Uncertainty Smackdown. With America being ruled by the Innumerati of all political persuasions anything that helps simple quantitative reasoning is worthwhile.
The basics of this I learned in High School Chemistry (Thank you, Mr. Wheeler) and my first two years at Carleton. Of course, back then (1967-70),
….there is no reason that students in introductory courses couldn’t do the monte
carlo method.
was not quite so obvious.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 