Lying with Statistics
When I completed my degree in Statistics in 1996 with High Distinctions, it came as a painful blow that I had just spent 4 years of my life, studying a subject that was completely flawed because every analysis is affected by the bias of the researchers. It was common knowledge even back then, that if your research went against pharmaceutical companies, your career was finished and you would be discredited, and you could never work again. Even the mathematical tools themselves were limited becaus
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