Hos B.T. kan man læse om en chok-måling, der vil sætte et tal på, hvor mange der vil stemme på Klaus Riskær Pedersens parti af samme navn: “Hans nydannede parti, der bærer hans navn, står nemlig til 1,9 procent af stemmerne.” Det eneste chokerende ved denne måling er, hvor elendig den er ud fra et […]
Month: February 2019
Hvordan vil danskerne stemme til Europa-Parlamentsvalget?
I en ny rapport fra Europa-Parlamentet foretaget af Kantar Public, gives der tal på, hvordan partierne vil klare sig ved det kommende Europa-Parlamentsvalg. Der er dog tale om en rapport, der har betydelige svagheder. Disse svagheder gør, at man bør være varsom med at tolke for meget ud af disse resultater. Dette udtaler jeg mig […]
Potpourri: Statistics #52
453. Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R: A story of 10 year old R code then and now 454. How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team works with graphics in R 455. Special Topics in Data Science: Responsible Data Science 456. Causal Data Science 457. From Psychologist to Data […]
How to improve your figures #1: Don’t use the y-axis to mislead
There are good reasons to think carefully about the y-axis when you design figures, including considerations on whether to start your y-axis at zero or not. In this post, I provide a simple piece of advice: when presenting bar charts on a linear scale, start at 0. Not 0.38. Not 0.31. Not 0.04. 0. The […]
Do men face more discrimination?
An article in the Daily Mail presents the argument that men face more discrimination than women. Similarly, RT writes: “Contrary to everything you’ve ever been told, in most developed countries men are actually more disadvantaged than women, according to new research published in one of the world’s leading scientific journals.” And Yahoo Finance writes “that […]