June 10, 2015

Availability bias

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Nathan Rarere, on this week’s Media Take, Mãori TV (video, about 18:35)

Everybody outside of Auckland thinks that Auckland is this incredible crime wave. Because you work in a newsroom and you’ve basically got a day to do the story, and you’ve got the car — “Where’re you taking it?” — you’ve got to sign it out and fill in the book, so whatever crime you can get to within about 55k of work.

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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 »