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My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the sixth in a series we are co-writing. Relationships are the branch of statistics that describe how one thing influences another. We know these as regression analysis, x-y plots or scatter…

My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the fifth in a series we are co-writing. The story of statistics started with a question about differences. R.A. Fisher set out to test if someone really could taste the difference between…

My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the fourth in a series we are co-writing. We all have a tendency to overestimate our knowledge. And as a result, we believe that we know things which we don't. Our…

My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the third in a series we are co-writing. Why do so many educators in statistics consistently fail to translate these ideas into something that people can both remember and use? The…

My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the first in a series co-written together. We’re far better at identifying good and bad writing than we are identifying good and bad numbers. The premise of this idea almost doesn’t…