Posts Tagged ‘ Health ’

Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
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Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

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Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
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Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

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Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
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Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

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Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
By
Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

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Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
By
Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

Read more »

Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
By
Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

Read more »

Being a spoilsport

December 19, 2012
By
Being a spoilsport

For the last few hours, Yahoo! decided that I'd be interested in reading this piece of news. Every time I go there, I get this front page: I don't really know how this sort of studies gets published in journals, nor am I interested in spending an hour figuring out how they failed to prove it. The snippet summarizing the research is here. The ability to look at some data…

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Book review: The Signal and The Noise

December 13, 2012
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Book review: The Signal and The Noise

Nate Silver first attracted attention two election cycles ago with the launch of his fivethirtyeight.com website (538 is the number of electoral votes in the United States.) He makes clean charts, which I like a lot. Since that time, he has earned a platform on the New York Times website, which goes some way to explaining the vitriol hurled at him during the just-concluded election season by the right wing.…

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Where do the numbers come from?

November 1, 2012
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Note to readers: There will be few updates to the blog in the next few days until southern Manhattan gets its power back. Note to AT&T: If you listen to your customers, you won't need to "investigate". Cell phone service has been unavailable since Monday. *** Lots of numbers are thrown around in the media all the time. Do you know how they are derived? This is a really important…

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