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Which Way Will Oil Prices Go?
Posted by weissinc
Saudi Arabia said on Friday that it would raise its daily output by 300,000 barrels per day … Angola is scheduled to start shipping a new blend of crude oil in July, boosting production by about 90,000 barrels a day… Iraqi oil production rose to more than 2.5 million barrels a day last week, the highest this year…
The new statistical rhetoric of climate change.
Posted by Jeff from Slate
10 years' worth of new data have emboldened the researchers, and now they've replaced their hazy equivocations with percentage values. This shift in rhetoric-at base, from words to numbers-has made their conclusions more comprehensible and compelling. It's also made them less honest.
When statistics lie
Posted by SoxFirst
Statistics are worshipped and abused in sports, economics and business. Here is why you need to be careful of them
Corporate crime - an overview
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The new statistical rhetoric of climate change.
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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