Tim Worstall

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• 1 blokeinfrance // Nov 8, 2011 at 1:10 pm

  That’s great news!

• 2 bloke in spain // Nov 8, 2011 at 1:20 pm

  From the same site:

  http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2011/11/little-knowledge-isthe-bbc.html

  Interesting reading the comments in the Graun ignoring that the variations are within statistical deviations & using them to ‘prove’ the statistical analysis in error.

• 3 bloke in spain // Nov 8, 2011 at 1:22 pm

  Sorry, missed out an expected in there. You’ll know where it fits better than I do.

• 4 Mactheknife // Nov 8, 2011 at 3:21 pm

  Perhaps we could get these guys a job at the UEA Climate Research Unit ?

• 5 Dave Tufte // Nov 12, 2011 at 8:31 pm

  Unfortunately, in the smug world of scholarly research, this usually won’t do.

  I wrote a paper almost 20 years ago about something similar: that economists were all crowing about the results of their unit root tests, when the tests suggested that variables that couldn’t have unit roots – like unemployment rates – actually did. I, too, had the provocative title, and instead of starting my abstract with “Probably not.” I used “No!”.

  That paper was never accepted. Anywhere. It’s still in my file cabinet, and the problem is still outstanding.

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