The Times Online’s David Aaronovitch, for whom “bad stats” is an obsession, lists three recently reported facts and explains why they are bogus.
One of these is a poll conducted by a union, Britain’s Teachers and Lecturers Association. They found very high rates of assault against teachers and abuse of teachers. They sent out questions to [...]
Whenever you hear someone say the words “cancer cluster,” turn and run. If that might be considered rude, just smile politely, make your phone ring, and sidle away never to return.
Cancer clusters are the mental plaything of the ignorant.
You don’t hear people talking in suspicous tones about “green shirt” clusters, do you? Yet I have [...]
After entertaining us with the puzzle of the three hats and the puzzle of the hundred hats (solutions here and here), John Tierney brings us the God-Oppenheimer-Einstein Dice Puzzle.
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