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A column by data analyst Jeff Asher? "everyone should become literate in statistics, because you’ll never know what skills you wish you’d developed two decades earlier. With that in mind, here is a column where I’ll do my best to talk about math and statistics and, of course, COVID."

Science writer Tom Chivers explains the public misunderstanding behind the statistics about vaccine safety Included in the article is a Statistical Style Guide.

A tiny difference can be a big difference, says Michael L. Dennis, a surveyor and geodesist with the National Geodetic Survey.

The original findings were published by Dr. Loh on his blog [https://www.poshenloh.com/quadraticdetail/ ]
and in a paper to his department at Carnegie Mellon University: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.06709.pdf

A story of how the new COVID grading procedure for college entrance exams in the UK created catastrophe for thousands of graduating high school students.'“Any statistical algorithm embeds a range of judgments and choices; it is not simply a technically obvious and neutral procedure,'”