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coronavirus Stop spreading unconfirmed COVID-19 symptoms around Thom Dunn

bitcoin The mysterious correlation between avocado and Bitcoin prices Thom Dunn
spurious correlations More chocolate = more Nobel Prizes Mark Frauenfelder
spurious correlations Age of Miss America correlates with murders by steam and hot objects Mark Frauenfelder
computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
reefer madness Malcolm Gladwell wrote a flawed weed moral panic piece for The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder
Science Science is really f*cking hard Cory Doctorow
Science Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide Gord Doctorow
happy mutants Spurious correlations: an engine for head-scratching coincidences Cory Doctorow
Business Big Data has big problems Cory Doctorow
Critiques of mass surveillance and data-mining Cory Doctorow