Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Statistical anomaly?

Thieves Jargon is now listed on duotrope as being in the top 25 (of 850) hardest journals to get poetry into.

Statistics never lie and good things don't always last.

3 comments:

Spencer Troxell said...

Speaking of lying with statistics, we had to read this in our stats for behavioral psych. class last year:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bag-of-tricks/chap10.pdf

I thought it was fun, but then again, I'm pretty hopeless.

Matt DiGangi said...

This is where I got my statistical training from:

Sons of Sam Horn

(baseball nerds use a lot of math to back up their assumptions)

Spencer Troxell said...

Obviously I should've stuck with baseball. My GPA would probably be higher.

More fun with statistics:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92