A relationship is more likely to be causal if it can be replicated.
-Charlie Kufs, Statistician

Without deviation from the norm,
progress is not possible.
-Frank Zappa

If at first you don’t succeed,
Try twice more
so your failure will be
statistically significant.
--Peter D'Adamo

There are no facts in science,
only probabilities.
Only fools and zealots deal in absolutes.
--Peter D'Adamo

I want to see a comparison of governmental expenditures or losses due to all forms of personal welfare, including student loans, family planning, housing assistance, medicare and medicaid (etc), relative to all spent/lost due to corporate subsidies, bailouts and tax breaks. The two warring sides in our politics tend to focus on one and are hard ( Read more... )

( The prognosis is best if they're young and poisoned. )

( nerdy stuff )

Another fascinating talk here:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Our government, headed by a Shrub, continues to tell us not to worry, everything is fine, just KEEP SHOPPING whatever you do. Our mass media, owned by various large corporations who benefit from continuation of Shrub policy, would rather tell us about some movie star's sex life or drug habit. But in spite of the attempts to keep us in the dark, ( Read more... )

Just ran across a great collection of stats and a post byrinku that I had to share. I've been following his posts on the LJ community RonPaul2008.

Here's something interestingFor those who know how statistics work, this shows the correlation between those states that contributed the most to Ron Paul in Q2 2007 compared with hundreds of other statistics. For ( Read more... )