Statistics In Everyday Life
An ABC News Primetime episode (“Gay Parents Bashed”) has some everyday statistics for you. They were testing prejudice in Texas versus New York. If you get the …
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Violating the Laws of Statistics is Bad For Health
Many in education offer advice on diet and nutrition to help students in school and on tests. But most of their advice (eat candy or …
Statistics and Current Events
In “Fables of the Reconstruction (Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick),” the blogger Iowahawk says: What follows started as a comment I made …
Sprints and Statistics
Two things, that is, that I love. The abstract of “Reduced volume and increased training intensity elevate muscle Na+/K+ pump {alpha}2-subunit expression as well as …
Theoretical Statistics Is Practical and Life-Giving
In “The Median Isn’t the Message,” Stephen Jay Gould (evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University) wrote: My life has recently intersected, in a most …
Thermogenesis and Weight Loss
In the introduction to “Postprandial Thermogenesis Is Increased 100% on a High-Protein, Low-Fat Diet versus a High-Carbohydrate, Low-Fat Diet in Healthy, Young Women” (Journal of …
Evaluating Studies
Dr. Michael Eades has a post entitled “Baboon Business” that shows how to dissect a scientific study. Dr. Eades says: I’ve read the paper that …
Statistics Resource: Online Data Analysis
UCLA has a resource on the Internet, the Statistical Online Computational Resource (SOCR), which allows you to do statistical analyses: one-sample t tests, simple linear …