March 27, 2017

Briefly

  • There’s yet another ‘breakthrough’ test for future Alzheimers. The story is better than usual, pointing out “while the score could help to identify people for trials, it was too early to apply it as a genetic testing tool for use in the clinic.
  • Research from Yale finds that (in the US) a lot of the people who don’t accept that climate change is real do say they trust climate scientists, they just  don’t believe that most scientists believe in it. Which is actually weirder.
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  • The Boston school system has switched from the Mercator projection to the Peters projection for maps in schools. Which is a step forward. But some of the coverage is repeating the myth that the Mercator projection became popular because it makes Europe look big. Here’s a guest post at mathbabe.org on the topic by Ernie Davis, and here’s the XKCD take
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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 »