Re: [Marxism] statistics for students?

["Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also go to http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/ by John Bignell, with its 
comprehensive criticisms of poor use of statistics, and many links to 
criteria for proper use, and detection of misuse, of statistics along with 
myriad anecdotes (some a bit quixotic)

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Cloke" <copito61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] statistics for students?


> Go to this site http://www.badscience.net/ which is run by Dr Ben Goldacre
> who writes in the UK Guardian. The guy is next to obsessive about misuse 
> of
> statistics and has a wealth of current examples.
>
> 



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