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 […]
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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 […]
Nyt bogkapitel: Analyse af adfærd via eksperimenter
Har sammen med Pelle Guldborg Hansen skrevet et kapitel om analyse af adfærd via eksperimenter til bogen ‘Metodekogebogen – 129 analysemetoder fra humaniora og samfundsvidenskab’, redigeret af Mie Femø Nielsen og Svend Skriver. Bogen er, som titlen antyder, en samling af 129 opslag om metoder med relevans for humaniora og samfundsvidenskab. En beskrivelse af bogen […]