David is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University in Australia.
How Lumpy is Random? and other burning questions in quantitative reasoning
1 February 2014
Most people are very bad at distinguishing genuine patterns from random noise, but fortunately there are statistical methods that can help. This article is adapted from a talk at the NZ Skeptics Conference, in Wellington, 7 September 2013.