West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Mr. Glass vs. the Patent Troll

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This American Life takes on Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures. What more do you need?

Monday, November 8, 2010

The short, sad life of Toxie the toxic asset

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Another exceptional example of financial journalism from This American Life/Planet Money. It's a remarkably entertaining hour but it sti...

Monday, September 27, 2010

This American Life on HCZ's Baby College

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Joseph and I have spilled a lot of pixels recently trying to debunk some of the bad statistics coming out of the educational reform movement...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Substituting metrics for judgement

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This episode of This American Life concludes with a fascinating account of the manipulation of crime statistics. Drop by, take a listen, g...

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

More great reporting from This American Life

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This is either the best piece of California political reporting I've come across recently or the best piece of education reporting. Eit...

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Another outstanding (and tragic) economics story from This American Life

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"A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a jo...

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