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WHAT DOES THE RAW DATA SAY ABOUT SEXISM BY TENNIS REFS? It’s a trick question: RAW Data doesn’t SAY anything WE collect and interpret it,

WHEN AN AUTO ACCIDENT DOESN’T HAPPEN Why “Tesla Autopilot saves a life” is barely news Tesla’s Autopilot technology includes a collision-avoidance feature that an owner recently credited with

PSYCHIC SCORECARD Like anyone in the forecasting biz, we should also look at what they MISSED Psychic predictions are an easy target for a skeptic

AMAZON PRIME DAY: CASH OR CRASH? Depends on which headline you read On July 16, I went to look for something on Amazon.com and, instead

“ACTION BIAS”: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BUSYNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY Doing something is MORE than doing nothing – but not necessarily BETTER Doing something feels better than

BOTTLENECKS If they can stop Elon Musk, they can stop anyone The necessity of identifying and solving for bottlenecks For several days, @ElonMusk attempted to come up

MANGLING THE MESSAGE – Bloomberg.com drops the ball on communicating the probabilistic nature of World Cup predictions Predictions are probabilistic in nature. This means that,

TALKS AT GOOGLE My recent conversation in Mountainview I had the opportunity to have an amazing conversation with Jordan Thibodeau as part of “Talks at Google.” It