Statistically Funny

Cupid's famous arrow causes people to fall blindly in love with each other. That can end happily ever after. Not so with his lesser...

She's right: on average, when people talk about "average" for a number, they mean the mean. The mean is the number...

Clinical trials are complicated enough when everything goes pretty much as expected. When it doesn't, the dilemma of continuin...

I used to think numbers are completely objective. Words, on the other hand, can clearly stretch out, or squeeze, people's percepti...

Deciphering trial outcomes can be a tricky business. As if many measures aren't hard enough to make sense of on their own, the...

Sounds great, doesn't it? Getting clinical trial results quickly has so much going for it. Information sooner! More affordable tria...

I can neither confirm nor deny that Cecil is now a participant in one of the there-is-no-limit-to-the-human-lifespan resveratrol st...

If only post hoc analyses always brought out the inner skeptic in us all! Or came with red flashing lights instead of just a littl...

"Early." It's one of those words like "new" and "fast," isn't it? As though they are inherently ...

Leonard is so lucky! He's just asked a very complicated question and he's not getting an over-confident and misleading answ...