October 15, 2015
Briefly
- With some insurance companies taking advantage of exercise trackers like FitBit to discriminate in favour of the health, there’s a potential market for fooling your FitBit. It’s hard to tell if UnfitBits is serious, but someone will be.
- When you might not want the government to have high-quality evidence-based choice of policies
- The pitfalls of using Google n-grams for linguistic research, from Wired
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel went to Angus Deaton. Here’s a readable example of his writing, on why the poverty line is the same everywhere in the US.
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 »
FitBit reminds me of a former colleague who ‘won’ the 10,000 steps a day challenge….by including his twice-weekly ballroom dancing class. An active dog is one possibility. Would a ceiling fan work?
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