Statistically Funny

In The Emperor of all Maladies , author Siddhartha Mukherjee describes a type of cancer as "terrifying to experience, terrifying to...

It doesn't come as a terrible shock to hear that a lot of patients struggle with statistics . It's a little more sca...

It all started with a single category in the 1840 US Census: "idiocy/lunacy", with the first DSM appearing in 1952 ( Diag...

Just what the world needs.... another inadequately discoverable journal! The number of medical journals is doubling e...

Sometimes, people combine data that really don't belong together - conflict all over the place! The statistical test shown by th...

"It's extremely hard not to have a diagnosis," according to Steve Woloshin, this week at the 2012  NIH Medicine in the M...

Making a good impression with headlines based on tiny preliminary studies? Too easy! Other ways to fall into traps about exaggerated...

Forest plots, funnel plots - and what's with the mysterious diamond symbol, lurking like a secret sign, in meta-analyses? Meta-analy...

Compelling anecdotes  - "It saved my life!" - can drive us so wildly astray. Rigorous research i...

At the Olympics, humans try to go "higher, faster, stronger" - and achieve their personal best. The bar is constantly ra...