Month: May 2007
Lucia de Berk en de amateurstatistici (in Dutch)
Deze tekst, die geschreven werd in mei 2007 als een vertaling van de Engelstalige blog Lucia de Berk and the amateur statisticians, is vervangen door een recente blog (2009): Het Openbaar Ministerie contra de wetenschap in de Lucia de Berk zaak. Het OM heeft nu inmiddels openlijk toegegeven anti-wetenschappelijk te … Continue Reading Lucia de Berk en de amateurstatistici (in Dutch)
Lucia de Berk and the amateur statisticians
My father was a judge. The only reason for bringing this up is that the cheapest argument, which has been used to fight people who have an opinion on the Lucia de Berk case which runs against the court decisions, is to say that they have no understanding of how … Continue Reading Lucia de Berk and the amateur statisticians
Ian McEwan and the bouquet series
Once upon a time… I knew a girl who would buy at the supermarket, together with the usual things one buys in a supermarket, a new small volume of the so-called “bouquet series”. She considered this to be a weakness or perhaps a “compulsion” (a rather innocent compulsion, perhaps similar … Continue Reading Ian McEwan and the bouquet series
