To most people, statistics means plugging numbers into an advanced calculator that spits out values, without much thought involved. Those people don’t work with data.

-Nathan Yau

Cheres.

My favorite critique of my article from Shark974:

Translation: Deadspin is shit and biased and wants to ban the NFL. Nothing more.

Sorry but you know it’s true. Studies these days are worth the paper they’re printed on, having been infiltrated by liberals (probably a few forests have been sacrificed printing fake global warming studies by liberals).

Also, you go through all that trouble to “prove”, drum roll please, baseball players are “no more likely” to die than FB players.

Hmm, given the notion out there that FB is a deathsport or something, I’d call that alone a big win for the NFL. The way Deadspin chose to spin and headline this article says a lot about their obvious bias. I suspect the author votes for Democrats, as well (liberals are much more likely to be both illogical and extremely biased in conducting studies).

But dont worry, we’ve got liberals on the case, I am sure plenty of fake lies, I mean, scientific studies, are coming soon that prove playing in the NFL rapes your dog and gives you cancer, to be shouted from the rooftops everywhere by the liberal media. Again, look to the global warming precedent.

The more I read this, the more I appreciate what a work of are it really is.

Cheers.

The crude death rate, for well known reasons, is not a good measure, because it is quite seriously affected by differences in age composition.  Standardized death rates, on the other hand, have the disadvantage that they depend on an arbitrarily selected standard population.

–Dublin, L.I. and Lotka, A.J. “Use of the Life Table in Vital Statistics.” American Journal of Public Health.  Vol. 27, May, 1937.

Cheers.

StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 4, 2012 at 12:18pm.  SOS=strength of schedule