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As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change to improve science. The common theme? The problem is not our maths, but ourselves.To use statistics well, researchers must study how scientists analyse and interpret data and then apply that information to prevent cognitive mistakes. In the past couple of decades, many fields have shifted from data sets with a dozen measurements to data sets with millions. Methods that were developed for a world with sparse and hard-to-collect information have been jury-rigged to handle bigger,...

Several months ago, FReepers were able to provide a link to FBI statistics showing that rape by white men of black women was so rare as to be non existant. This was at the height of the Nifong/ Duke Lacross scandal. I didn't book mark the link to those reports, but since my son has been given an assignment by his High School English teacher on the topic of "Racism and Prejudice" in modern America-we need those numbers. If you know where we can find them, please provide links, along with any Ward Connerly, Bill Cosby, Juan William's essays which...