Fun With Statistics

Today's edition of Fun With Statistics comes via a hat tip to the Chronicle of the Conspiracy blog, which also goes by the longer and more amusing…

It's earnings reporting season again, and out come all of the nincompoops complaining about how the evil oil companies are raping the poor consume…

Headline from France: The rate of offences by drivers over 65 jumped 38 per cent from 2003-05. Of course the first root cause that comes to mind is…

Several blogs are discussing the article in Friday's Wall Street Journal on how basically the entire world, with the notable exception of the Unit…

Statistics can be fun, and we've pointed out some of their vagarities in the past.  Such as the impact of offshoring on U.S. productivity numbers…