Posts

xkcd's Linear Regression

Kristoffer Magnusson's "Interpreting Confidence Intervals"

Matt, Rali & Rhonda's Statistical Test Flowchart.

Everything is fucked: The syllabus, by Sanjay Srivastava (with links to articles)

Harris' "How Big A Risk Is Acetaminophen During Pregnancy?"

Ahn Le's "Gotta plot ‘em all!"

u/dat data's "Why medians > averages [OC] "

Anscombe's Quartet

Wilson's "America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude"

Data USA

Quealy & Sanger-Katz's "Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree"

Understanding children's heart surgery outcomes

The Economist's "Seven Brothers"

Teaching your students about the de facto ban on federally funded gun research

Carroll's "Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast"

Rich, Cox, and Bloch's "Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares"

MOOCs for statistics/research methods instructors

Hackathorn, Ashdown, & Rife's "Statistics that Stick: Embedding Humor in Statistics Related Teaching Materials"

John Oliver's "Scientific Studies" with discussion quesions

Cheng's "Okcupid Scraper – Who is pickier? Who is lying? Men or Women?"

Electronic Conference on the Teaching of Statistics

NPR series on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Ben Schmidt's Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

Dvorsky's "Lab Mice Are Freezing Their Asses Off—and That’s Screwing Up Science"

Weinberg's "How One Study Produced a Bunch of Untrue Headlines About Tattoos Strengthening Your Immune System"

Bichell's "A Fix For Gender-Bias In Animal Research Could Help Humans"

Shapiro's "New Study Links Widening Income Gap With Life Expectancy"

Pew Research Center's "The strong relationship between per capita income and internet access, smartphone ownership"

Shameless Self Promotion

Kennedy's "'Everybody Stretches' Without Gravity: Mark Kelly Talks About NASA's Twins Study"

Granqvist's "Why Science Needs to Publish Negative Results"

Science Friday's "Spot the real hypothesis"

Why range is a lousy measure of variability

Climate change deniers misrepresent data and get called out

Totilo's "Antonin Scalia's landmark defense of violent video games"

Stromberg and Caswell's "Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless"

Davies' "Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users"

Dr. Mages' "APA Exposed: Everything you wanted to know about APA formatting but were afraid to ask."

Statistics/RM videos from The Economist