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Can’t buy me love

  Ok, money can't buy you love, but can it buy you the Premier League title? We'll look at that below, but first this recent Guardian...

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Freddy’s story: part 1

  This is a great story with a puzzle and an apparent contradiction at the heart of it, that you might like to think about yourself. A couple...

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Nul Points

  No doubt you're already well-aware of, and eagerly anticipating, this year's Eurovision song contest final to be held in Tel Aviv between the...

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A bad weekend

  Had a bad weekend? Maybe your team faded against relegated-months-ago Huddersfield Town, consigning your flickering hopes of a Champions...

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More or Less

In a recent post I included a link to an article that showed how Statistics can be used to disseminate bullshit. That article was written by Tim...

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Taking things to extremes

  One of the themes I've tried to develop in this blog is the connectedness of Statistics. Many things which seem unrelated, turn out to be...

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One touch football

Remember that thing about statistical diagrams of data telling their own story? Well, here's a graphic showing the location of every touch of the...

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Heads up

  I recently posted a problem that had been shown to me by someone at Smartodds. Basically, you have a bunch of coins. You toss them and remove...

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Do I feel lucky?

Ok, I'm going call it... This is, by some distance: 'The Best Application of Statistics in Cinematic History': https://youtu.be/8Xjr2hnOHiM It has...

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Picture this

  You can't help but be amazed at the recent release of the first ever genuine image of a black hole. The picture itself, and the knowledge of...

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