Archive for 23rd of December, 2008
Seen around the web
Dec 23rd
The Carnival of Space is online at Next Big Future
Four Stone Hearth’s most recent edition was online at The Greenbelt
Finally the PLoS ONE blogburst has a winner, and I think it’s a good one.
I’ll be away till the New Year now. I’ve started preparing my Darwin Day blogpost already as I don’t know how busy I’m likely to be then.
Season’s Greetings to all.
Internet Polls
Dec 23rd
A couple of questions on behalf of Phil Mills. 1) Is there a technical term for the standard internt polls where anyone can vote for an outcome? 2) Is there somewhere a summary of their shortcomings (a bit more updated than the telephone phone in How to Lie with Statistics?)
If you have any answers then please leave them below.
