Hans Rosling - statistician extrodinaire!
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/07/hans-rosling-obituary

Quote from: fsn on 08 February 2017, 10:23:43 AM
Hans Rosling - statistician extrodinaire!
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/07/hans-rosling-obituary

Very sad news 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 February 2017, 07:36:38 AM
Richard Hatch, the original Battlestar Galactica Apollo!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/08/richard-hatch-battlestar-galacticas-original-apollo-dies-at-71?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=212235&subid=15204226&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

I was a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica in my youth.  Saw him at a convention about 10 years ago and got his autograph [I'm not really an autograph person...].  He was actually pretty friendly and struck up a conversation with me and my buddy.  It was nice to see his career get a little reboot when the new Battlestar series came out.

Alan Francis Simpson OBE 1929 - 2017

One half of Galton & Simpson. RIP

Loved Steptoe & Son and then later on caught up on some of the Hancock's Half Hour repeats. Some great memories of these sitcoms.

Here's another. Not really famous for anything though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38911818

Oh dear, I thought she was on the mend.

The British and American forces were involved in really heavy fighting with the Taliban.
The worst of the fighting was in and around the caves of Tora Bora.
The American forces dubbed them, 'The Caves of Death'.
The British forces referred to them as, 'Tora Bora Tomkinson'.

Quote from: fsn on 08 February 2017, 10:23:43 AM
Hans Rosling - statistician extrodinaire!

There are Lies, There are Damned Lies and then there are Statistics

shame 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38919614

Quote from: Orcs on 09 February 2017, 08:48:52 PM
There are Lies, There are Damned Lies and then there are Statistics

As a BSc Hons in Applied Statistics may I put the other case, as expounded by Andrew Lang (Scottish poet, philospher and critic)?  "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts—for support rather than illumination."


Though my mother was impressed by my father's ability to quote statistcs until she heard him telling a friend "if you just make it a point something percentage, then it's credible."

This is of course correct 85.2% of the time.

Quote from: fsn on 10 February 2017, 08:02:34 AM
As a BSc Hons in Applied Statistics may I put the other case, as expounded by Andrew Lang (Scottish poet, philospher and critic)?  "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts—for support rather than illumination."


Though my mother was impressed by my father's ability to quote statistcs until she heard him telling a friend "if you just make it a point something percentage, then it's credible."

This is of course correct 85.2% of the time.

82.7% of statistics are made up. Jim Moyre, 1997

Quote from: fsn on 10 February 2017, 08:02:34 AM
This is of course correct 85.2% of the time.

You cleverly omitted the Confidence Level which would normally appear in 2pt type in a footnote in some obtuse appendix on page 127 of the study report.

Al Jarreau!!!!!


2017 is as poopy as 2016!