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Sense about Statistics
Sense about Science guide to statistics Quantification in an argument is seen as a big plus. If someone quotes some statistics, their argument suddenly seems so much more convincing. Yet, statistics is...
View ArticleThe British seem to get less cancer but also survive less than Americans. Why?
In the UK, more than 330,000 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2011. That compares favorably with the rate of cancer in the US—396 per 100,000 people in the UK vs. 451 per 100,000 in the US. But even...
View ArticleMen are committing suicide more than women everywhere in the world
More than 800,000 people around the world kill themselves each year, and millions more try but fail. This puts suicides among the top preventable causes of death in the world. And from Albania to...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about Facebook’s “proof” that it’s not a political echo...
When nearly half of US internet users are getting their political news from Facebook, it rightfully raises many worries. Chief among them is that Facebook’s powerful algorithm creates a “filter bubble”...
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