May 11, 2014
Briefly
- New York Times: In addition, however, “we are able to identify gay bars in Tehran. Moscow too,” said Pete Warden, a co-founder of Jetpac. The company does not want to do that, he added, but he does think it’s important that “we make people aware, get people talking about this.”
- US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation (correlation 0.992)
- Can you stop the Internet knowing you’re pregnant. Maybe?
- “I’m still a little embarrassed and feel it should be up to the scientists themselves to present the arguments for science.” Bill Bryson
When you hear a car alarm go off, do you even think that someone might be stealing a car? Frequent false positives undermine credibility.
— Stat Fact (@StatFact) May 6, 2014
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 »