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Numbers in the news? Make sure you don't fall for these 3 statistical tricks

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
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“Handy bit of research finds sexuality can be determined by the lengths of people’s fingers” was one recent headline based on a peer-reviewed study by well-respected researchers at the University of Essex published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the leading...

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