October 3, 2011

Fishing, the moon and statistics …

This is veteran fishing writer  Geoff Thomas in the Herald on Sunday:

“The question often arises: does the Maori fishing calendar work?

“To obtain a definitive answer one would have to ask the fish, but as this approach is not likely to achieve much it is more useful to look at a study by a university student [Ben Stevenson, of the Department of Statistics] who tried to reach a conclusion in his thesis.”

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Atakohu Middleton is an Auckland journalist with a keen interest in the way the media uses/abuses data. She happens to be married to a statistician. See all posts by Atakohu Middleton »