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  • ...eir study was widely reported in the media. You can find references to the media coverage and comments by Steve [http://www.swarthmore.edu/x6212.xml here.] ...into groups called genera. We can count the number of each generus in our sample. From this we want to estimate the total number of dinosaurs that have roa ...
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  • ...nior editor filling in as the guest "Public Reader", is concerned that the media often reports the outcomes of a poll without explaining how the poll should ...e women during spring break. The report was based on a survey of "a random sample" of 644 women and supplied a scientific-sounding "margin of error of +/– ...
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  • ...he migrants who crossed. This raised the issue of how representative their sample was, said Katerina Sinclair, a statistical consultant on the report. ...own, they were able to speak with enough migrants to have a representative sample." ...
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  • ...re rallying again near bedtime, a large-scale study of posts on the social media site Twitter found. </blockquote> It's not an accurate sample, though, as the researchers admit. ...
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  • ==Sample size criticized== Some experts have criticized the small sample size – 2 five-ml vials out of 6,528.<br> ...
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  • ...c, there is a [http://www.tinker.tv/download/manga_stats_sample.pdf 2-page sample,] at the [http://nostarch.com/mg_statistics.htm publisher’s website.] ...also a [http://www.tinker.tv/download/manga_statistics_sample.pdf 6-page, sample chapter] entitled <em>Standard Score and Deviation Score.</em> ...
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  • ...ts” in The ''Wall Street Journal'', ''The New York Times'', CNN, and other media in reporting on the Republican and Democratic contests. Bialik comments tha <td width="20%"><div align="center">Sample</div></td> ...
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  • Sample Size = 16396 ...are test comes up with about 13% for the p-value regardless of whether the sample sizes are the original ones or 7000 each, 6000 each, etc. What does it say ...
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  • ...alive and it is great to see and hear their personal involvement. Here is sample: Doctor Dwight Harken is speaking: ==The media usually back the wrong horse== ...
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  • ...and Marjan Bakker, also at the University of Amsterdam, searched a random sample of 281 psychology papers for statistical errors. They found that about half ...on the site gives the following overall summary of performance of the news media in providing accurate coverage. Schwitzer writes ...
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  • ...t more than eighty per cent of weathercasters don’t trust “mainstream news media sources,” though they are presumably included in this category.) 1. Buried in the article: The total sample size of free throws attempted was 425, with 60, 121, 191, 22 and 9 represen ...
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  • <td width="24%" height="39">Sample</td> <td width="25%"><div align="center">Sample Size</div></td> ...
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  • ==Resource for discussion of numbers in the media== ...ess" looks at some of the issues behind the use of numbers in contemporary media events. For example, the current episode - at the time of writing - conside ...
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  • ...doing experiments is to get sexy results which are reported in the popular media. Once such an experiment has been done, there is no point in repeating it." ...sed the same surprise as others, she stated that this result is based on a sample with the same demographics as its previous polls and on its usual methodolo ...
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  • ...olds) the number of adults and the number of phone lines. In addition, the sample was adjusted to reflect the percentage of the population residing in mostly ...iated with lower Alzheimer's risk. The results were widely covered in the media; several stories featured some version of this quotation from the [https:// ...
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  • ...according to a University of Michigan study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men 2. The SAD study started with 8664 participants but the final sample size was only 6583. Why might that be an issue? ...
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  • ...usly mentioned Chance News post] describes several clinical trials and lay media reaction. Comment on the last sentence especially with regard to the size of the sample(s) and the strength of the conclusion. ...
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  • ...ents who self-identify as Democrats comprise too large a proportion of the sample. By reweighting the results to reflect what he asserts are the true ...eading 48 percent to 45 percent for Mitt Romney. But the non-skewed uses a sample weighted by the expected partisan makeup of the electorate, the QStarNews D ...
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  • Topic #1: How to win at online dating (presenting oneself on social media in order to be popular)<br> The sample size started at 46, eventually 30 completed the study; each was blindfolde ...
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  • ...at the the Forsooth! column has often attracted positive reaction from the Media and in particular was once the subject of an editorial in ''The Times''. 3. The sample consisted entirely of male physicians as did a previous study decades ago r ...
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  • ...The twists and turns in her prosecution have been widely documented in the media. In 2011, an appeals court overturned the convictions. But now the Court ...ity may well play a role." A judge has refused to order a retest of a DNA sample, recovered in 2007 from a knife in Knox's apartment, that had been tentativ ...
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  • ...n Berkeley, California] had a three-day conference on "Mathematics and the Media". The purpose of this conference was to bring together science writers and ....msri.org/publications/video/general.html here] under "Mathematics for the Media" ...
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  • ...und that experts who claimed to be more certain were more in demand in the media, even though they were less likely to be correct. A study of financial adv Conclusions: L reuteri DSM 17938 did not benefit a community sample ...
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  • ...: "The combined results have been weighted to adjust for variation in the sample relating to geographic region, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, After the incident, many news and social media outlets claimed that this was the 18th school shooting of 2018. In fact, a ...
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  • The findings drew wide media attention. Deaton [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-ri ...png chart] (reproduced below) shows per capita ice cream consumption for a sample of countries plotted against mean PISA (Programme for International Student ...
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  • == Media highlights== ...ww.maa.org/pubs/cmj.html College Mathematics Journal] has a column called "Media Highlights". Norton Starr is one of the editors and his contributions are ...
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  • ...ion of opinion research has historically been the ability to draw a random sample of the population. That’s become much harder to do.” ...have sounded too good to be true, but that didn't stop the news and social media outlets from uncritically reporting the findings. The i09.com story linked ...
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  • “…. Gallup Poll’s former managing editor David Moore [stated] that ‘media polls give us distorted readings of the electoral climate, manufacture a fa ...ild variant of the [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3129 Fundamental Law of Media Graphs]." From the article, we read: ...
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  • ...eral weeks of joking, hand comparisons and bad puns by the public and the media. ...hen it comes to getting research and researchers into the rolodexes of the media. That this is clearly not the case is evidenced by "Reading men's faces: w ...
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  • ...week that he reads with those that moderator Robert Siegle reads from the media. So this article's objective is to answer commonly-asked questions from the media such as, <em>what are the odds of being killed by lightning?</em> or <em>wh ...
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  • ...l factors that also could have contributed to the bubble (such as the news media and a shared error problem) and the propensity for "new age" thinking in th ...But Shiller, with help by his students, was able to follow the values of a sample of houses over an extended period. ...
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  • ...l factors that also could have contributed to the bubble (such as the news media and a shared error problem) and the propensity for "new age" thinking in th ...But Shiller, with help by his students, was able to follow the values of a sample of houses over an extended period. ...
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  • The findings drew wide media attention. Deaton [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-ri ...3.png chart] reproduced below shows per capita ice cream consumption for a sample of countries plotted against mean PISA (Programme for International Student ...
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  • ...shing an interim report into the issue, the ONS said it would increase the sample sizes for its International Passenger Survey and consider making better use ...th [passenger] aboard. As the ship sails, the blazers go hunting for their sample, the woman in the green hat, the trucker in overalls by the slot machine, a ...
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  • ...e perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshaled in the order of their m <blockquote>While <i>public</i> media polls in late October consistently gave a slight advantage to Republican Se ...
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  • 4. The subjects in the study were twins and therefore, attracted extra lay media attention. Six of the ten authors are affiliated with Kings College, Londo <td><div align="center">Sample</div></td> ...
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  • ...t the estimates were based on ‘less than a 1 per cent sample, and a random sample at that!’” ...nomics, politics, regulatory intrigue, financial conflicts, and subsequent media coverage involved. ...
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  • ''The College Mathematics Journal'' (CMJ) has a column called "Media Highlights" which covers mathematics generally and its reviews often involv effect you can get from the media. A television news ...
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  • ...e items from their Forsooth column which they extract forsooth items from media sources. an immediate and dramatic impact on all media reports of the trial, and it is difficult to believe that it did ...
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  • ...e items from their Forsooth column which they extract forsooth items from media sources. an immediate and dramatic impact on all media reports of the trial, and it is difficult to believe that it did ...
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  • ...at they called the <i>law of truly large numbers</i>: with a large enough sample, almost anything outrageous will happen.” ...curate or complete with respect to other aspects of the study.) Comparing media reports to original study reports might be a good exercise for a stats clas ...
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  • ==Careless media reporting of a Facebook study== ...well as the risks that young researchers can face in dealing with the news media."<br> ...
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  • * Is a sample size of 12 sufficient to draw meaningful conclusions in the second experime ...g system can also surge with reports in response to media coverage. If the media raises general awareness of a possible link between a popular drug and a pa ...
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  • ...l factors that also could have contributed to the bubble (such as the news media and a shared error problem) and the propensity for "new age" thinking in th ...But Shiller, with help by his students, was able to follow the values of a sample of houses over an extended period. ...
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  • ...rces of error, such as ... measurement error … [or] experimental error and sample selection bias.” [pp. 7-8]<br> ...esearch projects that claim to show that an IQ can change over time. Some sample IQ test questions, with suggestions about how to increase an IQ, are also p ...
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  • 1. The margin of error for each half sample was said to be +/- 4 percentage points. Would you consider the difference 7. Based on their sample results, the researchers estimated, with 95% confidence, that the probabili ...
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  • ...the percentage change in the number of people of a specific age in a given sample who die in a given year. * Is a sample size of 42 large enough to draw conclusions about the 4 million entries in ...
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  • ...n Berkeley, California] had a three-day conference on "Mathematics and the Media". The purpose of this conference was to bring together science writers and ....msri.org/publications/video/general.html here] under "Mathematics for the Media" ...
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  • The bottom-right quadrant contains no populations in the sample - the reason for this is unknown. ....ac.uk/~s0340638/tonegenes/tonegenessummary.html summary page] lists other media articles. ...
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  • ...n Berkeley, California] had a three-day conference on "Mathematics and the Media". The purpose of this conference was to bring together science writers and ....msri.org/publications/video/general.html here] under "Mathematics for the Media" ...
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  • ...d a regular column entitled "Forsooth!" highlighting statistical gaffes in media reports (here is their [http://www.rssenews.org.uk/2013/05/forsooth-may-201 ...rnoulli, the law states that a variable will revert to a mean over a large sample of results. In the case of the largest companies, it suggests that high ear ...
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  • The author studied "30 team media guides" to try to determine whether there is "a correlation between educati ...y use by more than 2 percent over the course of a year. … [W]ith the pilot sample of 35,000 homes, it’s the equivalent of taking 700 homes off the grid. An ...
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  • The NY Times Magazine, Newsweek, and 60 Minutes are three of the media outlets devoting considerable attention to the "national champion" debate t ...ity of information on the Internet, how would you collect a representative sample of web pages? ...
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  • 5. The authors note “the structure of scientific publication and media attention seem to have a biasing effect on social science research.” Exp ...dition is update from my 1980 edition). The current table of contents and sample pages are also available online [http://books.google.com/books?id=IgZDcWeHp ...
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  • ...n appropriate diagnosis of disease. The researchers selected a convenience sample of diagnostic cases presented in the New England Journal of Medicine in 200 ...recent_news/chance_news_10.06.html#item10 Chance News 10.06] we, like the media, accepted this as a serious study and did not even raise the possibility th ...
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  • <blockquote>In brief, the previous design (the two-sample comparison) had three problems: (1) not scientific, (2) not ethical, and (3 ...ESP, astrology, divining rods, the second law of thermodynamic, etc., the media often presents an issue as if there were a legitimate disagreement among eq ...
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  • <div align=right>in: [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/business/media/germany-1-world-cup-fever-1000.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C% ...-lift-veil-on-drug-trials-1406687404#printMode “Researchers Fret as Social Media Lift Veil on Drug Trials”]<br> ...
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  • To intense media interest on Friday morning, Paul, who has an unblemished record in the tour ...uitively irrelevant aspect of Tuesday and yet, a careful laying out of the sample space indicates that the day of the week for the birth of a boy turns out t ...
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  • ...a regular column entitled "Forsooth!" highlighting statistical gaffes from media reports (here is their [http://www.rssenews.org.uk/2013/05/forsooth-may-201 ...rnoulli, the law states that a variable will revert to a mean over a large sample of results. In the case of the largest companies, it suggests that high ear ...
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  • ...appears to be on critiquing the coverage of scientific/statistical news by media folks.<br> ...ave to demonstrate only that the product is effective on a “representative sample of microbes,” without disclosing which bugs the product kills.<br> ...
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  • * A retrospective mortality survey drawing on a probability sample of approximately 1,400 households throughout the thirteen districts of Timo When a Powerball jackpot nears a new record the media asks experts to comment on what the odds are and to explain how unlikely yo ...
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