What’s up with James Watson

A thoughtful summary which explains to me why I had a bipolar reaction to the reported comments of James Watson last week. His quoted comments are very close to the bone: but you have to do the “what if” test and see how you would react if you assume he is...

We need better number education

Ben highlights an astonishingly important misuse of statistics around survival rates in early births. As he says, the figure being quoted has no scientific backup. It suggests we should do further research to see if specialist units are that better. But currently,...