Statistically Funny

  On the plus side, this jerk explains a lot about the data in a meta-analysis! This cartoon is a forest plot, a style of data visualization...

  Here we see an expert in evidence synthesis meet a metascientist! Evidence synthesis is an umbrella term for the work of finding and makin...

  The guy in this cartoon really drew a short straw: most clinical trial participants , at least, know they were in a study. On the other ha...

  A simple question, theoretically, has a simple answer. That's not necessarily the case in a clinical trial, though.  To measure in a w...

  "Were you in the vax group or the placebo?"  It sounds like a simple question, that should have a simple answer, right? And usua...

She's right to be worried! There are so many possible cracks that bias can seep through, nudging clinical trial results off cours...

This fortune cookie could start a few scuffles. It's offering a cheerful scenario if you are looking for a benefit of a treatm...

Imagine if weather reports only gave the expected average temperature across a whole country. You wouldn't want to be counting on t...

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...