Excellent blogs on the misuse of research and stats

[Katie Metzler]

 

I’ve found some great blogs (and you can follow them on Twitter) on the misuse/misunderstanding/misrepresentations of research and statistics and I thought I’d share.

 

If you have others, please let me know!

 

http://www.straightstatistics.org/ –

“A campaign established by journalists and statisticians to
improve the understanding and use of statistics by government,
politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass media. By exposing
bad practice and rewarding good, we aim to restore public confidence
in statistics.”

 

http://fullfact.org/

A non-partisan factcheck organisation campaigning for accuracy in public debate

 

http://www.badscience.net/

Ben Goldacre on Bad Science

[Katie Metzler]

https://www.coursera.org/ 

And this is the coolest thing EVER! Free online courses from Stanford, Berkley etc! I’m taking the Statistics course! Join me!!

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