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A little dose of statistics

Nationmasteris a treasure trove of both interesting and useless statistics. You can spend ages exploring it, which is what I just did.

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Posted on 8th October 2005 Details

Stats are the new black

There’s been a renewed interested in statistics recently. First we hadreinvigorate, which has since then shut down and gone into closed beta testing, then came shortstat which mutated intomintand hit the internet by storm (hey, it’s running here so it must be good *cough*). Just recently, adaptive path announced the good-lookingmeasure mapand, last but not least, Google just hit us withGoogle Analytics, based on their recent purchase of Urchin.

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Posted on 14th November 2005 Details

There are now more fat people in world than there ...

There are now more fat people in world than there are starving ones.

Linked on 14th August 2006 Details

“Statistics show that you are far more likely to d...

“Statistics show that you are far more likely to die in a car accident or by a heart-attack. But we have no idea what the probability of a terrorist attack is, and that frightens us”

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Posted on 14th August 2006 Details

From the department of the obvious: 95% of youngst...

From the department of the obvious: 95% of youngsters are illegally copying music.

Linked on 7th April 2008 Details

Medical researchers make wrong conclusions.

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong.

Linked on 16th October 2010 Details

The majority illusion.

A quick puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking. I seriously overthought this one before getting it wrong.

Linked on 11th June 2019 Details