Settled science, climate change and Charles Krauthammer

This past Friday the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Charles Krauthammer titled “The myth of ‘settle science.’” In it Krauthammer takes the position the he is neither a global warming believer nor a global warming denier. But then he spend almost the entire piece attacking claims of global warming. Perhaps he feels that […]

Posted by Larry on February 23rd, 2014 | 2 Comments Posted in Data Quality, Methodolgy Issues, Statistical Literacy, Telling the Full Story, The Media

Showing Olympic results

I watched the men’s downhill races yesterday. Matthias Mayer won the race. But as I watched the individual runs it was not at all clear that he would be expected to do so. The reason for this was in how the local (United States) network showed the split times as each racer moved down the […]

Posted by Larry on February 10th, 2014 | Comments Off on Showing Olympic results Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media

Poor survey question caught by the media

I love it when the non-statisticians in the media catch a statistical error. I spotted this piece in the Washington Post by the guy who does the traffic reporting – Dr. Gridlock. The piece was actually on upcoming local hearings on the proposed fare increases for the Washington metro area Metro. The problem was in […]

Posted by Larry on January 27th, 2014 | 2 Comments Posted in Methodolgy Issues, The Media
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