September 19, 2013
Briefly
- An interactive graphic showing variation as well as trends in unemployment in the US. From eager eyes
- Some people just can’t do simple mathematical computations, but for those that can, they can easily be distracted by political bias. Grist describes a nice experiment by psychologist Dan Kahan and colleagues
- Your refrigerator uses more power than many people in Africa
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »