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Game Theory Explains Why You Can't Hurry Love.
From a female's point of view, males are not all equal and there remains some risk that she will mate with the wrong type of male. She cannot eliminate this risk completely unless she decides never to mate.
Warwick Medical School and
LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.
Quoted in Science Daily
Commenting upon here
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You are what your mother eats.
Annette Georgey wrote to the [ence.edu/fast/jordanj/isostat.html Isolated Statisticans]
came out in today's Wall St. Journal that would be fun to use for introductory stats classes. It touches on several concepts--the limits of observational studies, confounding, spurious correlations, type I errors.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123301860344617927.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_pj
Does Breakfast Cereal Affect a Baby's Gender?
Here we will have a discussion of an article in the Wall Street Journal
which is based on an article"You are what your mother eats" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and on a criticism of this article: "Cereal-Induced gender selection? Most likely a multiple testing false positive" in the same journal.
You might want to read these articles before we figure out something wise to say about the articles.
To be continued.
Submitted by Laurie Snell