December 14, 2015
Briefly
- Andrew Chen has some interestingly boring graphs of election turnout:
Voting in referendums is lower than in general elections, but in a fairly uniform way.
- The Herald, which usually does better than this, ran a story about voting intentions for round two based on a bogus clicky poll
- “What’s the likelihood you will run into a 0-4 year to lighten up your day? “ In Vancouver, toddlers tend to live in apartments. (via @vb_jens)
- ” 70% Of Iran’s Science And Engineering Students Are Women” from Amy Guttman at Forbes
- Infographics: a botanist, Jeanne Osnas, draws a phylogeny of all the food organisms she ate while pregnant. From the blog “The botanist in the kitchen” (via @some_wise)
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 »