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Statistician answers stat questions Posted: 23 Feb 2022 12:27 AM PST For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as how likely it is you win the lottery, why election polls seem wrong all the time, and how statistical testing works. This was an entertaining and educational 16 minutes. Tags: Jeffrey Rosenthal, questions, Wired

More readable writing illustrated with more readable writing Posted: 22 Feb 2022 02:12 AM PST For The Pudding, Rebecca Monteleone and Jamie Brew (with design and code by Michelle McGhee) describe the advantages of more readable writing and how we measure readability. The best part is that they demonstrate with two versions of text. Switch paragraph-by-paragraph to see how an explanation is made more clear with simpler words and sentence structure. This is what I was trying to get at with last week’s Process newsletter but much better. Tags: Pudding, readability, writing

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