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Four possible explanations why most of the polls got the US election wrong

In the US presidential election, the final poll of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics…

Paul WhiteleyNovember 11, 2016

Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round

I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…

Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012