Tell them to buy an ad
From the editing blog “Heads Up”
… you don’t need a course in statistics to ask what a writer means by “incident count,” “city” and “occurrence percentage,” not to mention why and how the means are weighted, or even why users of an insurance comparison website would be a good representation of a city where a huge proportion of drivers are uninsured.
And
This isn’t “fake news” in the 2016 sense; it’s the old-school kind that has always gotten past enough gatekeepers to do its work. The traditional response is “tell them to buy an ad.”
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 »