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  Ok, I'm going to be honest... I'm not really happy with this post. I keep deleting it and re-writing it, but can't get it in a form where it...

    Last year's Fifa© world cup Panini sticker album had spaces for 682 stickers. Stickers were sold in packs of 5, at a cost of 80 pence...

Just in case anyone attempted the Royal Statistical Society Christmas quiz that I included in an earlier post, the solutions are now available here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy2vc9lW5r0 Whatever happened to the Nokia 3310, and what's that got to do with sports data? Many of you will know...

  In an earlier post I included a link to Oscar predictions by film critic Mark Kermode over the years, which included 100% success rate across...

One of the most remarkable advances in scientific understanding over the last couple of hundred years has been Mendelian genetics. This theory...

  The previous post had a cinematic theme. That got me remembering an offsite a while back where Matthew gave a talk that I think he called 'Do...

    In the previous post we looked at why bookmakers like punters to make accumulator bets: so long as a gambler is not smart enough to be able to...

  You probably know about accumulator, or so-called 'acca', bets. Rather than betting individually on several different matches, in an...

You probably remember the NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick who started the protest against racism in the US by kneeling during the national anthem....

  Welcome back to Smartodds loves Statistics. Let's start the new year with a fun statistic: 2019 is a lucky, lucky year. Why is that? Well,...

Smartodds loves Statistics has been going for a few months now. I'll take a break over Christmas, and come back early in the new year.  I have...