This morning’s Radio New Zealand show Media Watch (MP3) covers Thomas’ post on “Tip of the icecube” about the “hundreds of unfit teachers”.
The teachers story starts at 29:47 into the podcast.
Thomas Lumley was interviewed at length on the most recent edition of Mediawatch (Radio New Zealand, Sundays 9.05am) talking about the “TV kills you” post (he was also asked about many of the other things that annoy statisticians about the media).
Listen from 21.40 on.
Thanks Media Watch for the mention this morning for Stats Chat! You can listen to the my interview online and if you’ve just discovered our newly-launched blog, welcome!
This is a group blog from various members of the The University of Auckland’s Department of Statistics.
We’ll be covering all sorts of topics of interest to the general public (so you don’t have to be a statistics major to understand everything here) – the use and misuse of statistics in the media (especially those relating to New Zealand), curated links to sites showing new ways of exploring data and more.