"damn lies" archive
Monday 17 January
- Eugenics! Nature versus nurture! [More] regression! - Interesting New Yorker review of a new book on Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin and inventor of eugenics. Galton, who had a remarkably wide-ranging curiosity and intellect, did actually make significant scientific contributions, including discovering the idea that data... Posted in damn lies
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Wednesday 12 January
- Botch, bait, and switch - Jared Diamond may speak 11 languages [okay, I admit, it's impressive], but statistics doesn't seem to be one of them. In an annoying, overwrought section of his new book published in the Guardian, he argues that one American life, one... Posted in damn lies
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