Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Sunday, March 06, 2022

Trustworth Stats?

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I'm basically skeptical of the statistics being reported from Ukraine. Too much confusion in the early days of a war--everyone gets exci...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

The Vietnam Morass

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I happened to try to check Jill Lepore's claim that hundreds of thousands marched on April 15, 1967 in New York City to protest the war-...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Continuums

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"most things that we think of as categorical are really continuous" That's a line in this post, What Is a Woman?  at Statisti...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Collecting Statistics: Problems and Progress

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GovExec had an article on the problems with data collection during the pandemic from the Covid Tracking Project. Above and beyond any indi...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Pandemic Data Problems

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 I've posted a time or two on the need for the federal government to improve its statistical/data collection processes.   Here's a ...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

On Improving Statistical Infrastructure

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The Covid Tracking project announces its end.  But the work itself—compiling, cleaning, standardizing, and making sense of COVID-19 data fr...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Produce Waste

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The PBS Newshour is showing a piece on food waste, featuring an effort in California. It is part of a weeklong effort.  This particular one...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

MFP and Farmers.gov

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Got a tweet announcing the latest figures on MFP applications and payments.  I now can't find the tweet, not sure what's the matter....
Friday, August 04, 2017

USDA Statistics Suck

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You'd think having spent my career in USDA I'd have a good grasp of how to navigate the USDA statistics. You'd be wrong.  Perh...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

A Rape Is a Rape Is a Rape?

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Not so.  This piece on the Swedish "rape crisis" explains why it's in the definition. [Updated: Kevin Drum isn't a fa...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Cops and the 80/20 Rule

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Looks like the 80/20 rule operates with respect to the police.  In other words, most cops do their jobs without major conflict with the citi...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Hans Rosling Is a Bureaucrat

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Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, I got to this profile of Hans Rosling.which raised my respect for him considerably.  Rosling is fam...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

The VA's Problems: a Failure of Imagination?

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Much in the press about the problems with the VA.  I wonder though whether the problem wasn't at bottom a failure of imagination.  What ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Harry Potter Kills

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According to Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution , a scientific sampling of people who died in the last year would show that reading Harry ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Statistics and the "Midpoint": the Case of Dairy

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Long long ago I used to be good in math.  No more, but I'm still intrigued by statistics.  A recent ERS study on the consolidation of fa...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

My Own Prediction

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Nate Silver's book will hit the NYTimes best seller list.  (I'm about a third through and it's very good.)
Thursday, February 02, 2012

SSA a Model for Online Operations at FSA

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Social Security Administration wanted to have 44 percent of retirees sign up for SS payments online.  That was their announced goal: The a...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Immigration and False Facts in NYTimes

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The NY Times has an interesting op-ed article by a professor Dowell Myers, of SoCal, arguing that the immigration problem is over, because ...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Florence Nightingale a Mathematician?

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Yes, and inventor of a class of graphs.  That's from this interesting site , which says: Though known as a nurse who changed the stand...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

How Do You Know a Blogger Is Far Gone

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When he writes something like this: "I CAN’T STOP MYSELF:  I subscribe to all the NASS California Crop Reports .  I love these, most...
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