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Showing posts with label Statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Statistics. Show all posts

Sunday, May 18, 2014

The United States of Metrics - NYTimes.com

Does this mean that decision making will improve? I have my doubts. Smart people with numbers can take either side in most debates; climate change, gun control etc.





The United States of Metrics - NYTimes.com

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Are Safer Cars Worth the Money? - Bloomberg View

Sometimes you cannot count everything that counts.



Are Safer Cars Worth the Money? - Bloomberg View:



 Second, the department noted that in some cases, drivers have been the direct cause of their own children’s death -- an unimaginably horrific outcome that “is not fully or adequately captured in the traditional measure of the value of a statistical life.”