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Category Archives: Data, science and statistics
Mind Tech unConference – 30 March 2012
Summary Some thoughts from today’s gathering It was quite timely on a personal level to have found out about this gathering via Beatrice Bray’s comment in response to On anxiety overload. Over the past week or so I took a … Continue reading
Economics – what does the data say?
Looking back on my time in the academia of economics at university, one of the things that strikes me is the relative lack of examination of data – amongst other things. Textbooks are full of graphs – supply and demand, … Continue reading
Public understanding of science
I wandered along to the Cambridge Skeptics’ event The Public Understanding of Science where the lovely Dr Alice Bell was holding court at an evening in the Maypole pub that was standing room only. An excellent event not for the … Continue reading
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