October 11, 2016
Briefly
- A curriculum to help kids think critically about health claims has been developed — and is being evaluated in a randomised trial in Uganda (from Vox)
- Someone else (the website Grub Street) has fallen for the cheese addiction hoax. I wrote here about how the story makes no sense. There’s a post by SciCurious that includes an interview with one of the people behind the actual research, talking about how the story just isn’t supported by her work. We still don’t seem to know who is pushing the hoax version.
- I was on RadioNZ’s Our Changing World, talking to Allison Ballance about means and medians
- Using mathematics (or statistics) to help with art repair: Ingrid Daubechies talks about her work.
- From MBIE, an interactive map of NZ tourist numbers
This has been an urban legend in the UK — it’s true in Melbourne, though mostly because the Mt Waverley reservoir is a small storage buffer rather than main storage
The game that stops our city – Melbourne’s water use dropped dramatically during Saturday’s AFL Grand Final, and jumped during breaks #AFLGF pic.twitter.com/RzRV8f00na
— Melbourne Water (@MelbourneWater) October 3, 2016
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 »
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Calculated Risks: How to know when numbers deceive you: Gerd Gigerenzer
Gigerenza has published a couple of book on Risk, and how to be better informed, and understand statistics.
Health claims teaching in Uganda is why I mention this; and why I linked article about mammograms. Gigerenza covers a number of caveats, and why there shouldn’t be blanket screening for 40 year old women.
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