Mikhail Simkin writes about his discovery of a discovery: A Killer Reference I got a request from Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy to review the paper “Serial Killers Profiling and Target Victims: Is there a connection?” The article looked pretty banal until I got to chapter 2.1 where I read: “Biologically speaking, Heydari et […]
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A genteel squabble about serial-killer statistics
Everyone loves a good-natured statistics squabble (however, many statisticians would squabble with the statistic stated in the first part of this sentence). The Three-Toed Sloth blog entered into a squabble recently, beginning with this assertion: Because my so-called friends like to torment me, several of them made sure that I knew a remarkably idiotic paper […]