- How random is Python’s random?
- Can you trust a script’s random number generator to actually be random?
- U.S. airline fatalities plummet in 2010
- There were no airline fatalities last year. Experts credit statistical lull. Others cite strange anomalies in the data.
- Why don’t gun owners trust the left?
- If you have a Democrat in the house, you are eight hundred times more likely to die from statistical misrepresentation. Forty-three times more likely? Three times more likely? Would you believe smug mathematical innumeracy?
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- The Morning Rant: “Record Heat!” (When Heat Waves Are Reported By The Statistically Ignorant)
- “So with 15,000 weather stations across the US, and with each expected to have on average 3 record highs per year, there should be approximately 45,000 record daily highs per year in the United States.”