January 9, 2023
Briefly
- “We were able to put together a relatively good data set of case numbers for all states, but we were explicitly forbidden to make the data publicly available, even though our data was more accurate than what was appearing in the media.” Rob Hyndman, quoted by the ABC
- Yet another example that counting isn’t simply neutral, from the Wikipedia entry for the Bechdel Test, via depths of wikipedia: “What counts as a character or as a conversation is not defined. For example, the Sir Mix-a-Lot song “Baby Got Back” has been described as passing the Bechdel test, because it begins with a valley girl saying to another “oh my god, Becky, look at her butt”.
- From the Washington Post: is your name more common for dogs or people? (in the US, of course)
- From the New York Times, estimated carbon emissions by neighbourhood across the USA.
- From David Hood, using the Ministry of Health public data, our holiday Covid wave. Something different seems to have happened in Tarāwhiti, and it seems to have happened at roughly the same time as the Rhythm’N’Vines festival
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 »
“Yet another example that counting isn’t simply neutral, from the Wikipedia entry for the Bechdel Test.”
Clickbait ;)
2 years ago