Comments on: How to lie with statistics, academia edition: Here’s what your $40,000 a year is paying for http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-to-lie-with-statistics-academia-edition-heres-what-your-40000-a-year-is-paying-for/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 16 May 2008 23:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: mikeb http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-to-lie-with-statistics-academia-edition-heres-what-your-40000-a-year-is-paying-for/#comment-379711 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:47:10 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-to-lie-with-statistics-academia-edition-heres-what-your-40000-a-year-is-paying-for/#comment-379711 Seth, your wonderful dissection of the study's problems aside, none of that matters. Without an accurate timeline of the subjects' PED use -- including duration, frequency and volume -- and a true control group, it's an exercise in nonsense. Anyone who teaches stats for a living should know that. Seth, your wonderful dissection of the study’s problems aside, none of that matters. Without an accurate timeline of the subjects’ PED use — including duration, frequency and volume — and a true control group, it’s an exercise in nonsense. Anyone who teaches stats for a living should know that.

]]> by: Gee http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-to-lie-with-statistics-academia-edition-heres-what-your-40000-a-year-is-paying-for/#comment-337625 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:38:46 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/12/23/how-to-lie-with-statistics-academia-edition-heres-what-your-40000-a-year-is-paying-for/#comment-337625 <i>What is shocking is how little Cole and Stigler — professors who not only deal with numbers but teach at elite institutions — seem to understand about analyzing data.</i> Yes. Their thesis is essentially "The Bell Curve: MLB Edition." What is shocking is how little Cole and Stigler — professors who not only deal with numbers but teach at elite institutions — seem to understand about analyzing data.

Yes. Their thesis is essentially “The Bell Curve: MLB Edition.”

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