“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, new 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?
If you saw those exact words, would you have called off the Challenger launch because conditions were…
Calling Bullshit
University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom say the world is awash in bullshit and…
Geronimo!
As the story goes, paratroopers do it because it’s what the famous Apache chief yelled when he…
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…