Mistaken Data

The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…

President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address yesterday, and this…

I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…

Shady research from Harvard scientist Marc Hauser is confirmed:
On Friday, Michael D.…

No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.

What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…

This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…

If there’s anything good that has come out of America’s financial crisis, it’s…

I know next to nothing about the economy, stocks, and investments, but I…

This video shows statistics centered around atheism, claiming that atheism is correlated with…

Oxford mathematician, Peter Donnelly gives a TED talk on the common mistakes we make when interpreting Statistics.

On Last.fm, someone took snapshots of some Linkin Park songs, compared them, and…

I saw this map of the average snow levels in Buffalo. I think…

After parsing Weather Underground pages to grab temperature data, it’s time to look…

It’s easy to see how Statistics got this bad wrap because it’s so…