A person’s odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are greater than dying in a motor vehicle crash.
Tag Archives: statistics
Interesting Pew Survey (2016 vs 2018)
Interesting data for political stats wonks.
“Still” is the new “on the other hand”
Many times, when I post one of these rants about the way reporters write about statistics (especially statistics about the economy), I refer (negatively) to the “on-the-other-hand” crutch nearly all business-related stories now include. History buffs will recognize this as a reference to a Harry Truman quote: “Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists […]
A trillion here and a trillion there
Google is oogling over its numbers today. Not the numbers related to financial performance, but the numbers that math majors get goose bumps about. Granted, I may be misinterpreting what exactly the Google blog post is reporting, but I think it says that when Google started 10 years ago, they could index 26,000,000 web pages […]
It’s 2008. Why hasn’t Internet advertising surpassed magazine advertising?
Four years ago, an article in the Wall Street Journal suggested Internet advertising would match magazine advertising by 2007 and blow past it in 2008. What happened? The very short version: During 2007, almost $60 billion was spent on advertising that appeared in print while $11.31 billion was spent on advertising that appeared on the […]