Category: statistics

  • Doing some estimations

    This is again one of those topics which I like to rant about, so I give you the short version: when you see a number, question it! Most of the numbers thrown at us in different media can be disproven quite easily and it is our responsibility as people not to just repeat whatever we’ve…

  • Dear people: try to think harder, even if it makes your head hurt!

    This again is the case of a couple of links on the same topic piling up in my reader (this tends to happen if you take a pause in blogging :-)): Gmail’s Spam Filter No Longer Effective? 60% of Facebook users consider quitting over privacy Poll: 93% say Facebook should make you ‘opt-in’ to sharing…