February 8, 2015

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  • From the Sydney Morning Herald (I’m in the West Island at the moment), new recommendations for amounts of sleep now have extra ‘may be appropriate’ uncertainty fringes around the central band, representing our lack of real knowledge about sleep.  If you are an adult and get 5 or less hours sleep a night, you aren’t getting enough. On the other hand, you probably have a small child and know you aren’t getting enough, or are Margaret Thatcher.
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  • A graph for showing inequality. This has potential, but it would be more convincing if the examples involved real data. School decile data would be one possibility
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  • Orange and blue: A circular histogram of the colour profiles in film trailers (from, via)
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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 »