Chance News (July-August 2005)

Under construction. See Chance News (May-June 2005) for additional recent chance news.

Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. (anonymous)

Contents

• Forsooth (July-August) 2005
• A probability problem
• Misperception of minorities and immigrants
• I was quoting the statistics, I wasn't pretending to be a statistician
• What women want
• Rules of engagement - modelling conflict
• How people respond to terrorist attacks
• Can you get fired over the wording of a questionnaire?
• You can't just go on telly and make up statistics, can you?
• The more the merrier? First born do better at school
• Racial profiling