September 27, 2017
Briefly
- From the Guardian: what Tinder knows about you (if you’re a Tinder user)
- Surveys: those who know the people of Puerto Rico are US citizens are much more likely to be in favour of the US helping them (also, if you’re not a government, here’s a list of relevant charities from the NY Times)
- David Spiegelhalter’s reckons about uncertainty and risk communication
- “This 30-point shift could be because attitudes changed rapidly. Villasenor’s study was immediately after Charlottesville, for example, and students might be more primed to think about Nazi’s marching on their campus…It could also be because of differences in survey methods. Surveying college students is really hard.“
- From the Ottawa Citizen “In six high-profile cases documented by the Citizen, searching the name of a young offender or victim online pointed to media coverage of their court cases, even though their names do not appear anywhere in the news articles themselves.“
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 »