June 30, 2014
Briefly
- Motivated reasoning: In a survey of doctors “68% of the 125 circumcised males supported circumcision, and 69% of the 106 uncircumcised males opposed circumcision“
- “And although many would consider this creepy stalking, that’s not actually my problem with it.” Cathy O’Neill on medical data mining
- From Pacific Standard magazine: How to get people to donate. “One [study] finds that requests featuring a single child are more effective than those with multiple faces. A second suggests that child had better not be too attractive.”
- A lighter side: colour dictionaries — what scientists did before Pantone
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 »