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Charles Dickens

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Statistics against irritations: a response to Dickens’s apologists or If high readership is the test of good writing, then 50 Shades of Grey is a work of genius…

Recently I discussed my article1 which reported the results of the test where the takers…

Mikhail SimkinMay 7, 2013

Charles Dickens

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A scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens

Previously I discussed1 my experiment that tested whether people can tell the masterpieces of abstract…

Mikhail SimkinMarch 21, 2013

Valerie Isham

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Can you name a female statistician?

We read about statistics every day, be it the predicted winner of a football league,…

Linda WijlaarsMarch 5, 2013

Tube Map

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150 years underground: Tube celebrates its sesquicentenary

Queen Victoria was on the throne, Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States of…

Abdel KhairounJanuary 10, 2013