The Progression of Misinformation and Syphilis
Reports have been surfacing recently claiming Facebook usage enables the spread of syphilis. This is mostly based on irresponsible reporting.
Category: Statistics
No One Trusts Statistics
People don’t trust statistics, and by extension, experts. But they used to. What’s changed?
A Plain-English Explanation of Correlation
It came to my attention recently that there are no (or at least few) easy-to-understand plain-English explanations of what a correlations is or how to appropriately interpret them. So I provide one!