Science is hard. Statistics is hard. Proving cause and effect is hard.
uncertainty
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Lessons in statistical significance, uncertainty, and their role in science
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Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty
Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
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Prostitution, GDP, and £1.7 billion due
David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk, does some back-of-the-napkin math to…
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How well we don’t understand probability
All Things Considered on NPR ran a fine series on how we interpret…
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Uncertain cartographies
Most people know the layout of their neighborhoods and some are good with…
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Visualizing uncertainty still unsolved problem
Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…