July 10, 2019
Briefly
- AI Ethics: Seven Traps, from freedom-to-tinker
- The NZ$ Herald has a front page story about over-screening for eye conditions, which uses the wonderful word “incidentaloma” (an unnecessary and accidental diagnostic finding)
- On the avocado-toast libel of millennials: actually millennials earn more money, and spend less on food and entertainment than the baby boomers did at the same age (inflation-adjusted)
- Lisa Charlotte Rost looks at an Economist graphic about unprecedented Arctic ice melting and redraws it so it’s true.
- In a new podcast by The Spinoff, Russell Brown talks to two AI/algorithm experts about what ‘algorithms’ are.
- A widely-publicised study of gut bacteria and autism in mice has problems. I’m quoted not believing the statistical analysis.
- From the Sydney Morning Herald, a graphic depicting the size of a blue whale in terms of more familiar, everyday objects (though the typical adult blue whale is a few metres shorter than that)
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 »