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The Trump firing of the BLS chief imposed costs by lowering faith in official statistics and increasing uncertainty.
Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction. In fact there are certain facts which sound so bizarre that they practically compel you to look into them. This was clearly playing on...
Aaron Brown discusses how research gets distorted, why sensational claims spread so quickly, and how to think more critically about the numbers behind the headlines.
We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new pape...
RNZ: NZ among world’s worst for landfill waste per person RNZ: New Zealand generates double the global average of rubbish, report says (also repeated here and here) This attribute...
Beyond the Arithmetic of Power: Modi, Nehru and BJP's Obsession with Statistical MilestonesWhen Numbers Become NarrativesPrime Minister Narendra Modi's surpassing of Jawaharlal Neh...
Beyond the Arithmetic of Power: Modi, Nehru and BJP's Obsession with Statistical MilestonesWhen Numbers Become NarrativesPrime Minister Narendra Modi's surpassing of Jawaharlal Neh...
Unfortunately, all too frequently I see the same flawed (but popular) metrics used to support the narrative that certain forms of severe weather are becoming significantly worse du...
Meng (2022) pops up a lot here: “it is the people” (the launch of this blog series a year ago !), “probability samples vs epsem samples vs SRS samples”, “divine probabilities”, and...
In recent years, greater attention has been given to efforts that push back against the present broad acceptance of established data on human life expectancy, particularly for the...
Thanks to social media, we can get a vague numerical insight into a person’s life. We can see how many people follow them and vice versa, how many times they’ve posted, and even ho...
Just 62 per cent of Canadians believe Statistics Canada's data to be reliable, while 25 per cent do not believe the agency is free of political influence.
“These data are misleading and should be disregarded,” Jamie Cox of Harris Financial Group says.
Southern winger Jeremiah Asi is chased by Zingari-Richmond winger Jacob Pollock during a Dunedin metro division 1 game at Bathgate Park on Saturday. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN...
How to tell finance stories. The post Stories vs. Statistics appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
A graph of temperatures looks almost flat… if you exclude the data that would make it jagged.
The US Department of Agriculture dramatically lowered its reported beef export sales for late June on Thursday, sparking fresh concerns about the quality of the agency’s data after...
More than a few newsies have talked about the sketchy counting methodology over the past few weeks & months but this quick quote provides the best overview we've seen . . . Che...
Author's NoteThis essay began with a simple observation.India possesses increasingly sophisticated statistics concerning sexual violence, crimes against women, child protection, an...
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