by Sally Maughan
Statistics
Lies?
Or, perchance, truth
by Sally Maughan
Statistics
Lies?
Or, perchance, truth
Pedagogical guidance: provide your students with a couple of the above examples of this type of joke and ask them to invent their own jokes of the form
"The data on _____A_________ are _____B_____,"
and then to explain what it means for data to be ___B____.
Larry Lesser and Dennis Pearl
by Lawrence Mark Lesser
Statistics must be fast. . .
‘cause my newspaper gives numerical nuggets as “fast facts”
‘cause my doctor’s orders say STAT when she wants a test done now
‘cause velocity is a big feature of big data
‘cause some statisticians
do accelerated testing,
fast Fourier transforms,
or a Tukey’s quick test
‘cause statisticians
run studies,
run simulations,
and run tests (like a runs test)
and those who run are fast, even
in the long run