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Tag Archives: statistics
Fake Euthanasia Statistics
I promised I’d write something clearing up statistics on euthanasia in the Netherlands, so let’s start with Anne McTavish: The Netherlands’ Euthanasia Stats Are Appalling. She writes: I want to focus on the doctors and the rest of us who … Continue reading
Hasta La Victorians Siempre
It seems to be Gush About The Victorians Month in the academic community or something. How The Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate, and Died (h/t Michael Vassar) claims that the mid-Victorian period was a golden age of health during which life expectancy … Continue reading
Literally Inconceivable: Contraceptives And Abortion Rates
I have amazing parents who would never do something sneaky like install a keylogger on my computer to keep tabs on me as I move thousands of miles away from home. But if I’m wrong and they did do that, … Continue reading
Wisdom of the Ancients, Redux
The authors of the paper on Victorian intelligence have seen my critique and kindly replied. HBD Chick has already addressed their response from pretty much the same perspective I will, but just to make it official… I originally complained that … Continue reading
The Wisdom of the Ancients
Were The Victorians Cleverer Than Us?, asks a new study by Woodley et al that has gotten name-dropped in places like The Daily Mail and The Huffington Post. Meanwhile, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines continues to warn us that “Any headline … Continue reading
Utility Weight Results
[Warning: The following post contains statistics done at 4 AM and not double-checked.] By far the most interesting result from my utility and QALY survey earlier was the striking last name imbalance in readers of this blog. 93 people took … Continue reading
In Defense of Psych Treatment for Attempted Suicide
A lot of the comments in my recent post on the implicit association test asked for a defense of why society should be hospitalizing suicidal people in the first place. If people have, after much thought, decided they prefer death … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 2 of ∞)
[TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of violence against the disabled] I decided to edit the last post to split it in half. Some of you who read this through Reader are probably getting it twice, so apologies for that. The second Facebook … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 1 of ∞)
I spend so much time arguing with people about the graphics they post on Facebook that I figured I should at least make a blog post out of it so I can pretend it’s productive. Here’s an image I got … Continue reading
Google Correlate does not imply Google Causation
I need something sexy, something to lure new readers to this new blog and get them excited. So let’s talk about statistical correlations. No, wait, failed statistical correlations! Google Correlate is a nifty new Google product that takes data sets … Continue reading