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XKCD (come on, you know XKCD): I can’t help but admire the audacity of the marketer who came up with the phrase “contains a clinically studied ingredient”
headsup (journalism blog): It’s more likely that the [Detroit Free Press] doesn’t understand that you’re supposed to do a little basic arithmetic before you talk about public opinion.
Andrew Gelman: graphs showing uncertainty in a fitted curve.
journalism.org.nz: a proposal for NZ public interest journalism funded by the public
BBC: Gathering evidence for the effects of exercise on depression is harder than you might expect.
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 »