It's Friday the 13th; what could be more fitting than having Donny Trump as president...
Oh well, here's some math:
1) The “power pose” and more (or less):
2) And relatedly, also from Gelman, I suspect anyone involved in psychology or social science research, ought read this post (and comments):
3) Meanwhile Kaiser Fung warns about the ubiquity of fake data:
4) Lot of talk about neural networks these days, which has John Cook worried about the problem of ‘overfitting’ the data:
5) Transcribed interview with Dr. Holly Krieger here:
6) Devilishly-tricky little problem from Futility Closet:
7) And this lovely little problem from Ed Southall:
(some nice explanations in comments)
8) You just never know what Ben Orlin will teach you about next:
9) I wouldn’t normally bother citing yet another piece on the Monty Hall Problem… except that this one is from Keith Devlin and connects it to the more general backsliding of scientific thinking evident in today’s citizenry:
10) I reported on Brian Hayes’ new book, “Foolproof,” last weekend:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Krista Tippett with Daniel Kahneman on “On Being” last weekend:
2) Lastly, in important news of the week, kneeling at the national anthem may be problematic, but maybe flipping the bird at it is constitutionally-protected:
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