Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Dr Grump likes this very much...

...an excellent set of articles on lies, damn lies and statistics, written by Michael Blastland on by the BBC news website (some of whose journalists, according to Dr Grump, are as much to blame as anyone else).

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brian Clegg has a related post over at PopSci on Nature Network today. Your thoughts must be in tune after the blogging conference!

Here is what we provide in terms of statistical guidelines to prospective authors at Nature (link goes to a Word doc):
http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/Statistical_checklist.doc

Tue Sept 09, 04:23:00 pm  
Blogger Clare Dudman said...

Ha! I've taken a look - such a weird coincidence.

And thanks for the link. I'll make sure Dr Grump takes a look and gives it her critical eye.:-)

Tue Sept 09, 08:41:00 pm  

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