September 15, 2013

Briefly

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To be fair, the purpose of the chart probably is just to look ugly and complicated, not to convey quantitative information

  • A fascinating statistic: 1/3 of emergency calls (111 number) are due to pocket dialing from mobile phones. Since nearly 50% are real, that means Kiwi butts are responsible for twice as many calls as pranks and cranks.
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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 »