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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- 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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