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Archive for December, 2006

Did you know that 95% of all statistics reported on blogs are made up?
Not only that, but you have to be particularly careful when reading reports coming out from the media that interpret poll results. Here’s a perfect example.
Two stories came out from the Associated Press in the last two days. The first [...]

Ode to a Grad Student

I have transcribed an item that I though was particularly clever. It comes from the December 20th edition of the Scientific American weekly podcast . This podcast is hosted by Steve Mirsky and is posted each week on the Scientific American Website. You can listen to the entire podcast here: Science Talk, December [...]