Science Isn’t Broken

It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for.

Source: Science Isn’t Broken | FiveThirtyEight

Here’s a good long article about the difficulties of doing good science from a data perspective.

And have you ever wondered who has been better for the U.S. economy, Republicans or Democrats? Play with the data widget on the first page. You’ll see that the question can be asked a lot of different ways, and with different answers, many of which are statistically significant.