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compare trials Despite public pledges, leading scientific journals still allow statistical misconduct and refuse to correct it Cory Doctorow
flippable correlates Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability Cory Doctorow
stats Cluster analysis shows that the golden age of The Simpsons ended in Season 10 Rob Beschizza
how to lie with statistics Automatically generate datasets that teach people how (not) to create statistical mirages Cory Doctorow
gigo Sampling bias: how a machine-learning beauty contest awarded nearly all prizes to whites Cory Doctorow
civic stats Proposal: replace Algebra II and Calculus with "Statistics for Citizenship" Cory Doctorow
klong you are a pickle Why all scientific diet research turns out to be bullshit Cory Doctorow
kafka Stats-based response to UK Tories' call for social media terrorism policing Cory Doctorow
stats 10% of Americans have 10 or more alcoholic drinks every day Cory Doctorow
stats Piketty's methods: parsing wealth inequality data and its critique Cory Doctorow
correlation is not causation Spurious correlations: an engine for head-scratching coincidences Cory Doctorow
stats Big Data has big problems Cory Doctorow
probability SF writing competition: a world without the Normal Curve! Cory Doctorow
stats Who reads books in America, and how? Cory Doctorow
stats Understanding spurious correlation in data-mining Cory Doctorow
stats Young brothers explain Bayes's theorem Cory Doctorow