Putting Methods to the Madness
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Written by Connor Zahler: One of the most ubiquitous claims in all of society is that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It’s been brought up in fights about the course of society, lampshaded by romantic comedies, played straight […]
Written by Connor Zahler: It’s the start of a new year, which means that it’s list season. Everywhere you look, people are compiling the best and worst people, things, and ideas of 2022 to gear up for 2023. You’ve probably […]
Written by Connor Zahler: If you’re like me, you’re still riding high from the joy of absolutely annihilating Ohio State within their own stadium (which is, notably, not the largest in the Western Hemisphere). Alas, periods of celebration can only […]
Written by Connor Zahler: Assistant Editor’s Note: QMSS acknowledges that Christmas is only one holiday out of many and that many readers do not celebrate. This article is not meant to imply that readers should celebrate Christmas; it is meant […]
Written by Connor Zahler: Nothing says election season like a gratuitous amount of TV ads and a deluge of polls. Most people are familiar with the pre-election polls, which usually rely on phone calls to take the temperature of the […]
Written by Connor Zahler: In a previous post, Connor talked about a massive overestimation of the human toll during the European witch hunts. It’s easy to dismiss this, and other gross misuses of quantitative methods, as simply a funny anecdote […]
Written by Connor Zahler: The standard for statistical significance that we’ve consistently been taught in higher level education is p<0.05. Most questions on exams won’t even list a p-value because you are meant to assume .05 is the cutoff. But […]
Written by Connor Zahler: After a months-long search for a new president, the Regents of the University of Michigan announced that they had selected Dr. Santa Ono for the position. We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest […]
Written by Connor Zahler: As you’ve probably heard, the Big 10 will welcome the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California to the league in 2024. Students everywhere have questions. Don’t we already have more […]
Written by Uma Hornish: When you conjure an image of the world map in your head, it is likely rectangular. For years, children have grown up believing this flat and rectangular illustration of the world is an accurate representation of […]