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 […]

Posted by Larry on July 4th, 2013 | Comments Off on Uninformative Analysis – How useful is the Washington Metro? Posted in Methodolgy Issues, Statistical Literacy, Telling the Full Story, The Media

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 […]

Posted by Larry on July 1st, 2013 | Comments Off on Biomarkers and heart risk Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media, Where's the Data?
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