March 25, 2005

Website: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Dr. Nancy Wyatt calls this terrific George Mason University site to our attention:

It’s not true that people with high IQs voted for Kerry and those with low IQs voted for Bush. That’s an Internet hoax. Oil prices adjusted for inflation were highest in 1981, not today. Researchers have claimed that the vinyl in nail polish can cause cancer. George Mason University reports that “the unfortunate laboratory rats had to absorb the human equivalent of 4 ? bottles of nail polish every day for 70 years to become ill.”   I thought it might be interesting to use this site when lecturing on research for CAS100. Maybe other instructors would like to have this George Mason University website as a resource: http://www.stats.org/

Posted by slw4 at March 25, 2005 05:43 PM