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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

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The Race to the Finish Line

Rjust: The benefits of associating with your own kind of person are a kind of equivalent to the benefits of constantly upping the anti in a super war. You sort of race to the finished line with that approach, he says. Rjust: There is this organization that's happening from a more or less random process. Could we then take this data and analyze it, look at the number of records for each day of the year temperature records and see if there's some hint of global warming? It turns out that for philadelphia, the data was suggestive, when not decisive. That is, that we had more record temperatures than we could expect from just random i i d variables,.

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