March 30, 2015
Briefly
- Two data-related notes about the Northland by-election: the polls were amazingly accurate given how hard by-elections are to predict, and the Electoral Commission did a wonderful job in getting the vote counted and reported fast.
- A graphic of gender inequality around the world. The income graph is not the usual one, because it is total income, not income per hour worked — most of the gap is in fewer hours of paid employment.
- According to the Independent “California is in one of its worst-ever droughts because people are growing too much weed”. Unsurprisingly, not what the research actually says
- The Medical Council of New Zealand has released a Discussion Paper on the value of performance and outcome data.
- From Significance magazine, a description of how the various political polling companies in the UK work
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 »