April 13, 2012

The facts speak for themselves?

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Two headlines based on the same data from QV.  In the Herald

Auckland house values soar

and in Stuff

House prices ease in March

And it’s not just the sub-editor’s fault; the headlines match the text of the story in both cases.

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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 »