Entries by Scott Cullen

Lies, Damn Lies and Inadequate Sample Size

Benjamin Disraeli was the Victorian era Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  He famously said “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”.  He died in 1881.  This was after Sir Francis Galton coined the term standard deviation, but before he popularized concepts like of correlation and the Central Limit Theorem with […]