surveys Trump voters are 50% more likely than Biden voters to have donated sperm, and other important facts David Pescovitz

wordle The optimal words to start a game of Wordle Rob Beschizza

sharks Shark attacks up more than 30%!!!! Rob Beschizza

statistics Cops say they're quitting, but the stats show they're sitting pretty Rob Beschizza

statistics Unvaccinated people are 4.4 times more likely to catch Covid and 15.4 times more likely to die from Covid Rob Beschizza

1918 How crime rates during COVID compare to the Spanish Flu Thom Dunn

polls Huge Pew poll puts Biden ahead by double digits and it's the best news Trump's had in days Rob Beschizza

randomness In his spare time, an engineer found flaws in the classic book "A Million Random Digits" Mark Frauenfelder

organlegging China is still harvesting organs from prisoners and covering it up Cory Doctorow

occupations Occupations by frequency as mentioned in the lyrics of David Bowie Rob Beschizza

some models are useful Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

headlines Short animations about how clicky health-claim headlines are often misleading David Pescovitz

spurious correlation Big Data's "theory-free" analysis is a statistical malpractice Cory Doctorow

patrick ball Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves Cory Doctorow

bayesian reasoning Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

explicable oracles High school class's electoral predictions model is a model for electoral predictions Cory Doctorow

pikhaya English and Welsh local governments use "terrorism" as the excuse to block publication of commercial vacancies Cory Doctorow

principal-agent problem A/B testing tools have created a golden age of shitty statistical practices in business Cory Doctorow

texts How to assess The Federalist Papers' authorship with statistics Rob Beschizza

not treasuring or measuring Puerto Rico to dismantle its statistics agency in the midst of radical shock doctrine project Cory Doctorow