College grads – How does one define underemployed?

The graphic to the right caught my attention at the Penn State Collegian website a couple of weeks back. The article was titled “Report: Half of college graduates overqualified for current job.” That kind of title is sure to gather the attention of the students on any major college campus. The data is credited to […]

Statistics and the Australian Open

I watched parts of the Federer-Tsonga match in the Australian Open a couple of days ago. Federer won the first set of the match. At that point the announcers started a discussion of the players with the highest winning percentage for a match given that the player had won the first set of the match. […]

Some records are not worth talking about

I tend to dislike it when the local weather station reports a new record. There are just so many categories of data that the weather service track. In most places data exists for a maximum of only 100 to 150 years. There are record highs, record lows, record low highs, record high lows, record rainfall, […]

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