Uninformative Analysis – How useful is the Washington Metro?

Combine a poorly designed question with a poor analysis and what to you get? Last week the Washington Post conducted a survey on the Washington area Metro asking questions about attitudes and reasons for not using the system. A piece of the graphic they used to display the data is posted on the right. The […]

Biomarkers and heart risk

I watched a news report last week that claimed that a relationship had been identified between heart risk and a set of three biomarkers. An abstract of the paper, titled, Aggregate Risk Score Based on Markers of Inflammation, Cell Stress, and Coagulation is an Independent Predictor of Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes, is available. A description of […]

Supermoon

The media has made a big deal this week about the “Supermoon.” CNN did a story and posted number of images. I have seen stories on the evening new on all of the networks. I find the entire story a bit overblown. The usual hype is that the moon is 11% or 14% bigger and […]

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