
Opinion (on) polls
Polls, operating characteristics, USA and evaluating success After the recent US elections, one familiar refrain occupied social media...

ANNA
Can you hear me? On the 16th September, little Anna came to this world, making myself and Thea the most proud and happy parents in the...

Randomised Controlled Trials during Wartime
Why they should still be the standard. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short piece on why Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are...

Randomised Controlled Trials in peacetime
Why are they considered the standard? In a hospital, two leading doctors cannot agree on the value of a specific treatment. They call a...

The can's lid
Pineapples, design, league tables and clinical trials Few years ago, during my Ph.D. studies, I had the luck to be taught a statistics...

How to interpret COVID-19 research news
Data reliability, test performance, causality and clinical trials There are those sorts of events that either are so intrinsically...

Tennis, statistics, tornadoes
Quasi-Simpson, Break Points, Conversion rates and Roger Federer Tennis has always been one of my favorite sports. I played tennis...

Statistics vs... God
Popper, Arbuthnot, human sex ratio and statistical tests. Taking decisions is the meat of life. We all know how difficult that sometimes...

When The Big Thief are on Fire
These New Puritans and The Big Thief, live. Last week was possibly one of the best musical weeks I've had in quite some time. Of course,...

Probability as a game
Uncertainty, Random Variables, Sport and Probability. When I was 18, I decided to study Math, thinking that it was possible to model...

Listen to the Natives
Francis Drake, Scurvy, Drimys Winteri and Cluster Randomised Trials. OK, this is my first blog post, so let's explain how we got here: a...












