Posts Tagged: statistics


I love to see stats about my music listening (I am, for instance, a long time subscriber to last.fm) so when Spotify dropped a story about what I have been listening to not only this year but the whole decade, I was delighted. I was not at all surprised that my top artist of the year was Caterina Barbieri but honestly surprised that Daft Punk was my top artist for the decade.

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Stochastic terrorism

Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf” (Anonymous blogger, 2011).

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Is Most Published Research Wrong?

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