Good morning and happy Friday, everyone! Let's start the day and end the workweek with some well-deserved internetz.
- Have high hopes for you NCAA bracket? Statistically speaking, you'll probably win jack shit.
- But don't fret, you degenerate gambler! Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.
- The Pop Culture Translator needs more hip-hop.
- Are you lovin' it even after a year? Good, because like a fine wine, Happy Meals age well.
- Who can remember the last time Chairman Mao was so adorable?
- I guess Australians like their baby showers with an added dose of brutal domestic violence.
- Larry Flynt uncovers secret presidential sex lives. You didn't hear it from him, but Hannah van Buren was a straight-up slut.
- For those who thought they've seen it all, Hot Chip destroys a Boy Band with shiny blue vomit!
- Chatroulette statistics drastically understate user perversity.
- Someone buy me a sweet-ass retro travel poster!
- I wish all opening credit sequences could be this adorable.
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
You can come and see one of the fine fellows behind that awesome travel poster series - Dusty Summers of The Heads of State - at the ADCMW Meet the Judges program next Friday at Civilian: http://meetthejudges2010.eventbrite.com/
In response to the long article about p values, null hypotheses, biases and meta-analyses (that most probably didn't read):
Evidence-based medicine informs medical decision making because using double-blinded randomized control trials (RCTs) is the best tool we currently have. Otherwise, we have nothing to refute Jenny McCarthy warning parents about vaccines, blaming her son's autism on the MMR vaccine and establishing a link between autism and vaccines with her special powers as a mother because she can just feel it.
Yes, it is still true. One must understand the power AND the limits of EBM, statistics and science as a whole. That's why most medical schools teach students how to read, interpret and implement RCTs and the like.
Oh man. Sorry for the geek out. MC^2.