In my previous blog entry I briefly reviewed Darrell Huff’s excellent book, How to Lie with Statistics. In the closing chapter Huff summarises the lessons by explaining How to Talk Back to a Statistic. Or, in Huff’s own words, “how to look a phoney statistic in the eye and face it down”.
Not all the statistical [...]
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Statistics is hard. Let’s all go to the beach.
-Barbie
You know, I really enjoy being an information analyst. Statistics has been a very rewarding career choice. Over time I’ve learnt to swim through data like a fish dives through water. In fact, remove me from statistics and I’d probably flap around gasping to breathe just like [...]
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