May 8, 2014

Where would they get that impression?

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From Stuff: “New Zealand’s worst air is not where you think“.  That’s not actually true. New Zealand’s worst air, according to the story, is pretty much where I thought it would be, in coastal Canterbury and Otago.  However, if you search the Stuff website for the term “air pollution”, you get:

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So if you expected Auckland to be the worst, you know who to blame.

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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 »