Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Mail Online: The Idiots Have Won - Surrender Dorothy!

FFS!

The media's stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

As David Spiegelhalter, professor for the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University, puts it: “I have a heuristic: the very fact that a piece of health research appears in the papers indicates that it is nonsense.” His reasoning is that as a rule it is only the most bizarre findings that find their way into the popular media and such bizarreness almost invariably indicates a statistically insignificant experimental anomaly...

Mail Online May 21st.
PS Help! Another one!!!


Thanks to Steve Taylor. x

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