Props to tigranater for the pointer.
We finally got around to reading Charles Wheelan’s 250+ page defense of frequentist methods in his 2013 book “Naked Statistics.” (Curiously, his book was published a year after Nate Silver best-selling tome “The Signal and the Noise,” a book that criticizes many of the statistical methods described in “Naked Statistics.”) Although “Naked Statistics” is “sparkling and intensely readable” (to quote from one of the many positive reviews of his book), our overall verdict is go read Nate Silver’s book instead. Consider this clumsy hypothetical on pp. 127-128 of Wheelan’s book, the case of the missing marathon runners (edited by us for clarity): Continue reading
That is the title of this intriguing paper by Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at Barry University. Here is an excerpt from Professor Beydoun’s abstract:
America’s first Muslims were slaves. Social scientists estimate that 15 to 30 percent of the Africans enslaved in the Antebellum South practiced Islam. Research indicates that the Muslim slave population could have been as high as 1.2 million. Despite their considerable presence in the Antebellum South, the history of Muslim slaves has been largely neglected within legal scholarship.
For anyone interested in North American legal history, this paper is definitely worth a read. Props to Prof. Alfred Brophy for the pointer.
This nifty volcano map is based on a dataset of 10,734 known volcanic eruptions from 1,562 individual volcanoes, going back in time 12,000 years, and was prepared by James R. A. Davenport, a PhD candidate in Astronomy at the University of Washington. Check out his excellent website “If we assume.”
Although “it’s not entirely clear that [Newcomb’s paradox] is well-posed” (see video at 8:11), Professor NJ Wildberger presents an elegant mathematical solution to this probabilistic problem in the video above.
Is this art or a wasteful prank? Hat tip to Weikardzaena (via reddit) for the pic.
Stunning chart, but…
The @BW chart, & my e.g., w/o the broken axis. businessweek.com/articles/2014-… cc @junkcharts #charts http://t.co/Fr51K9Ky8c—
Abhinav Agarwal (@AbhinavWork) December 12, 2014
Read more about this little statistical dust-up here (via Justin Fox). Addendum (31 Dec. 2014): Here is another take on this controversy.
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