Statistically Funny

Conflicting studies can make life tough. A good systematic review could sort it out. It might be possible for the studies to be poo...

I admit I needed Google to quickly find out that the category for bunny-shaped clouds is "zoomorphic". And I think Google is ...

It's the  Catch-22  of clinical trials: to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs....we don't...

Unfortunately, little Suzy isn't the only one falling for the temptation to dismiss or explain away inconvenient performance dat...

Of course, every time Cynthia and Gregory make the 8-block downtown trip to the Stinsons, it's going to take a different amoun...

Monitoring....There's something about getting something into numbers and targets that just makes it seem to be so controllable, isn...

We're deluged with claims that we should do this, that or the other thing because some study has a "statistically significan...

When a big medical conference is on, we're saturated with coverage of the presentations. This makes them a critical target for m...

Precise numbers and claims - as though there is no margin for error - are all around us. When someone tells you that 54.3% of people wit...

Oh boy - look what a data hunter  has dragged in this time! Why is this problem...