Fun With Statistics - The Gender Ratio and Chinese Demand for US Treasuries
18 June 2011
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we explore the gender ratio and a couple of surprising impacts. This morning's Wall Street Journal had a re…
Fun With Statistics - Predictably Private Edition
23 April 2011
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle the brouhaha over the past couple days regarding the discovery that the iPhone as well as phon…
Fun With Statistics - Visually Comparing Magnitude
20 March 2011
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll take a quick look at a common problem when communicating statistics: describing orders of magnitude.…
Fun With Statistics - The Global Tax Compendium
14 February 2011
By Kevin Meyer It's been a while since we had a Fun With Statistics post, but fellow blogger Jason Yip just pointed me to PWC's just-released…
Fun With Statistics - Tax Inflow/Outflow Edition
25 September 2010
A few articles over the past week piqued my curiosity, again, on the impact of policy on global knowledge and wealth distribution. Regular readers kno…
Fun with Statistics - Framing the Analysis Edition
8 August 2010
In this edition of our irregular Fun with Statistics series we take a look at an oft-unforeseen pitfall of analysis: inadvertently framing the analysi…
Fun With Statistics - Apples to Kumquats Edition
8 May 2010
A common statistic from those that believe health care in the U.S. could be "better" is infant mortality, where in many comparisons the U.S.…
Fun With Statistics: Metrics, Distortions, and Outright Lies
23 January 2010
Several letters in today's Wall Street Journal pointed me back to a recent op-ed by Michael Boskin titled "Don't Like the Numbers? Change…