February 27, 2014

As if you didn’t have enough to read

A new blog of science-themed links and (NZ) event listings, Science Club.

Their most recent  post is for this story from the Guardian, which reports that one in every thirteen tweets contains swearing.

What do you think is the most commonly used swearword on Twitter? Well of course it is

There is, of course, substantial variation between users. Most of the people I follow are dragging the average down.

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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 »