It’s almost Halloween, so I thought it was appropriate to write about something scary: statistics! (That was a joke, statisticians.) As a mathematician, I can get by in statistics, but I am not a native speaker. As someone who writes about math and science for a non-specialist audience, I think that statistics and an accurate portrayal of the statistics that support a scientific theory are extremely important parts of science writing. Later this week, I’ll be on a panel about statistics-based reporting, and I’ve been reading some statistics blogs to prepare for the session.
Read the full post at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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