“Dear Abby” Statistics, Awash in Ignorance and Presented Ass-Backwards
Last week the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece that has Harry…
Voodoo Statistics
People have lots of friends. People are lonely. How can this be?
You know how you hear one story that makes a lot of sense and then you hear…
Airlines Doomed, study says.
Readers have asked me to demonstrate how I go about reading a study. We don’t use privately-funded…
What can your business learn from NASA’s Challenger disaster?
Westerners read from top to bottom and from left to right. The farther things are down a…
Calling Bullshit
University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom say the world is awash in bullshit and…
Geronimo!
A shocking new study has turned the parachuting world upside down. In a randomized controlled trial, scientists…
2 Million
Who is behind that forecast? In The Curious Science of Counting a Crowd, Rob Goodier says “when…
TIDAL Wave
You already know music streaming is worth billions of dollars. Spotify, Apple and Pandora are big names,…
Where Are Your Ancestors From?
It depends. Phil Rogers, a Chicago news reporter, recently sent samples from home test kits to several…
The Sky Is Falling!
(Today’s title is from the well-known tale of a hysterical Chicken Little, who mistakes a falling acorn…