Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “statistics”

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe | Cameron Sun

csun.io/2024/06/08/probabilistic-tic-tac-toe.html

Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle

christopherwolfram.com/projects/spelling-bee/

The Spelling Bee is a word puzzle published daily by The New York Times. The rules are very simple, which got me thinking about generating puzzles automatically. In this project, I created a metric for measuring the approximate difficulty of Spelling Bee puzzles, which I used to study the space of all Spelling Bees. In particular, I found the easiest and hardest puzzles, and also looked at how the subset of human curated puzzles published by The New York Times fit into the broader space.

open source web analytics

goatcounter.com

Histogram vs eCDF - Marc's Blog

brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.html

It's trivial to transform an eCDF into a histogram, by bucketing up first differences (fn+1 - fn). You can't go from the histogram to the eCDF so easily in general, because bucketing loses data.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

Reporting bias makes homeopathy trials look like homeopathy works | Ars Technica

arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/reporting-bias-makes-homeopathy-trials-look-like-they-work/

When clinical trials are registered in advance, homeopathy doesn't seem to work.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real | Office for Science and Society - McGill University

mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

jwz: Base Rate Fallacy

jwz.org/blog/2021/12/base-rate-fallacy/

How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Evan Miller

evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

GoatCounter – open source web analytics

goatcounter.com/

Why You Cannot Trust Numbers from Qualitative Usability Studies

nngroup.com/articles/true-score/

microCOVID Project

microcovid.org/calculator

What is A/A Testing, and Why Should Marketers Care?

instapage.com/blog/what-is-aa-testing

Are your A/B testing results entirely accurate? Learn why A/A testing can be beneficial, the pros and cons, and how to avoid false positive test results.

The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

goodreads.com/book/show/36644895-the-tyranny-of-metrics

The Tyranny of Metrics book. Read 120 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How the obsession with quantifying human performance threat...