The Wall Street Journal uses the word “percentile” incorrectly

The Wall Street Journal gets the definition of percentile backwards.
The Wall Street Journal gets the definition of percentile backwards.
We know soccer is a low scoring sport, but how many matches do you think end within one goal of 1-0?
EXPERTS SAID OBAMA WOULDN’T BE ELECTED PRESIDENT AND $3 GAS IS HERE TO STAY From this article: Paying less than $3.00 per gallon for gasoline may be automotive history for most Americans, like using 8-track tapes or going to a drive-in movie,” said Bob Darbelnet, President and CEO of AAA. “The reality is that expensive […]
Don’t trust quotation websites
VISUALIZING COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF US STATES Syria is about the size of Florida with about the same population Change how you see the world. Put things into perspective! In our most labor-intensive post ever, Jake Hofman and I have created, for every country in the world, a way to think of that […]
JDM (Judgment and Decision Making) researchers like Reid Hastie and Tom Wallsten have participated in the online interview series “Talking about Decisions” produced by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
A new book by Phil Tetlock and Dan Gardner on Super-Forecasting.
Check out this announcement of a new book by Paul Slovic and son.
Why is restaurant cutlery sometimes magnetic?
In 2010, we proposed a counterfactual GPS. Today, XKCD had the same idea.