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The Science of Counting the Dead

From The Science of Counting the Dead: “A recent study…claims that over 650,000 ‘excess’ deaths have occurred in Iraq since the invasion in March, 2003. STATS look at how scientists figure these numbers out, how their methods compare to other counts, and whether criticism of the numbers is justified.”

Statistics Kill Dreams

Most of you know that I have some interest in writing, publishing, and making millions of dollars off a book. So when I came across link to a page of publishing statistics while reading Seth Godin’s “Advice for Authors,” I couldn’t help but follow the link.
Here are the more interesting ones:

On average it takes 475 [...]

Fun with Stats

So, this weekend, I transfered over the SiteMeter stats tracking thing that we had from the last site. While I was configuring it, I found that SiteMeter added a new little feature to the type of stats it follows. I’ve always been able to look at the IP addresses for the visitors to the site, [...]

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