Exciting statistics on visual display on BBC4. It indeed is an exciting, visually pleasing and modern video. The presenter, Hans Rosling, a statistician and a guru of data animation, makes numbers look matrix-cool! I thought I was watching a 4-minute magic show. Savour in the power of great data visualisation. Watch the life expectancy and wealth progression of 200 countries in 200 years in 4 minutes.
The data are on a 1-5 scale, the mean is 4.61, and the standard deviation
is 1.64 . . . What’s so wrong about that??
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James Heathers reports on the article, “Contagion or restitution? When bad
apples can motivate ethical behavior,” by Gino, Gu, and Zhong (2009): There
is s...
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