tags: statistics

2015

June

2015 Jun 3
Hot Hands

Scientists dismissed "hot streaks" in sports for decades. They were wrong. • Vox • 2013 Jun 3

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2016

January

2016 Jan 14
Bad Investment Advice

It would have cost ~$584 million to buy every possible combination of numbers in the Powerball lottery.

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2016 Jan 22
Old Music

Old music now appears to be more popular than new music, but it relies entirely on how you define old music.

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July

2016 Jul 20
Statistical Arguments For and Against the Existence of Finland

There is a 50/50 chance that Finland does not exist.

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August

2016 Aug 6
Meta-Analyses

Aside from the overhyped and clickbaity headlines, one of the basic problems of popular medical journalism is that they generally elevate meta-analyses over randomized controlled trials.1

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