From the BBC we have that UK’s first Energy Saving Day has been a total flop. The basic aim was to encourage people to switch off devices they did not need and they were expecting to see the power usage go down by 2 or 3%. On the day it went up by 0.1%. IMHO [...]
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Yet more BS to pollute the minds?
Seen in a local newspaper is a large add for a silver ring you wear on your little pinkie and it is claimed to stop snoring. It’s evidence for efficacy are some anecdotes, of the type where more of them does not equal a fact. Of course there is [...]
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Last week I was giving a talk on decision making and biases and we had some robust debate on the bias called the “Law of small numbers”. Below is the slide from the talk.
Some confusion existed because of ambiguous wording, in particular the first phrase “Mean IQ is 100″ was seen to apply to the [...]
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