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Interpreting climate change probabilities

Bob Griffin sent a link to the following:

The interpretation of IPCC probabilistic statements around the world
by David V. Budescu, et al, Nature Climate Change, 20 April 2014

Reproducibility

When studies are wrong: A coda
by George Johnson, New York Times, 7 March 2014

Submitted by Bill Peterson

Finding lost aircraft

Jeanne Albert sent a link to the following

How statisticians found Air France Flight 447 two years after it crashed into Atlantic
MIT Technology Review, 27 May 2014

How statisticians could help find that missing plane, by Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight, 17 March 2014