January 15, 2014
Briefly
‘Approaches to measurement’ edition
- Knowing a car’s speed and acceleration (but not location or direction of travel) is enough to learn quite a bit about where it is going
- Smartphone cameras can measure gamma-ray exposure, a modern analogue of using glasses to measure alpha-particle exposure from radon. The best radiation meter is the one you have with you.
- Can your personality predict your politics? The Time magazine quiz asks 12 questions and gives its assessment of your political views. It did reasonably well for me, but I’m pretty sure 12 questions about politics would do a lot better. (via @juhasaarinen)
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 »
The “Predict your politics” did OK for me – sort of. But I do object to the way that Americans have corrupted to word “liberals” – in this case mean ‘left leaning’.
11 years ago
Agree, though I think the Aussies are even worse.
11 years ago