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...Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, a sidecar to Jacobovici's Cameron-produced Discovery Channel documentary. Jacobovici claims that 10 bone boxes from an ancient Jerusalem-area crypt bear such a suggestive combination of names (JESUS SON OF JOSEPH, MARY, JOSE) that it must be the holy family's tomb. His statistician has set the odds at 600 to 1 in favor. He thinks one inscription, MARIAMENE E MARA, denotes Mary Magdalene, and another, JUDAH SON OF JESUS, her son by the Saviour...
That sort of talk gives heartburn to E.U. officials and statisticians across Europe because they say it's largely unfounded. Indeed, since 2002, inflation has been rising faster in Britain, which kept its own currency, than in countries that switched to the euro. True, the cost of some everyday items has gone up, at times quite sharply. The German statistics office, for example, has calculated that, since 2000, the price of a man's haircut has risen 7%, a breakfast roll is up 13% while tram tickets are 17% more costly. In France, a cup of coffee...
...such reasoned and academic arguments have largely failed to filter into the mainstream public debate. But in the world of statisticians, there is some introspection taking place. "Perhaps the communication of statistics was too focused on averages and not enough on variants," Giovannini says. That's a statistician's way of saying people were not warned that some prices could go up, even if inflation as a whole stayed down. Now, it's a bit late...
...correlation found during initial research is exactly the sort of event that triggers funding for such major studies. TIME declaring that a statistician who finds a clue should not publish unless he can offer definitive proof is like saying an astronomer who discovers a star should not reveal its location unless he can prove the origin of the universe. And suppose this theory of autism turns out to be true. Should those with suspicions remain silent, offering no caution to parents of young children...
...Dinosaur species that ever existed, as estimated by a University of Pennsylvania paleontologist and a Swarthmore statistician...