August 10, 2013
Briefly
- If you’re going to write a story about one of Satoshi Kanazawa’s publications, you might try Googling him first. (The fact that he lived in ChCh for a year is not the most salient piece of his background)
- The Daily Mail has been publishing a few interesting science stories recently. Apparently not writing them, though.
- Nate Silver talked to thousands of statisticians at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal this week, about principles for data-based journalism
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 »