December 9, 2013

Muphry’s Law

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Muphry’s Law says that any attempt to criticise editing or proofreading will contain editing or proofreading errors. It clearly extends to criticising educational standards:

The biggest fall in NZ’s rankings was in mathematics, from 13th to 23rd (though we also fell from 7th to 18th in science and from seventh to 13th in reading).

(via @economissive)

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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 »