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Benno Hansen

The Economist explains: How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects? | T... - 0 views

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browser job statistics data

shared by Benno Hansen on 12 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • applicants who have bothered to install new web browsers on their computers (such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome) perform better and stay in their posts for 15% longer, on average, than those who use the default pre-installed browser that came with their machine (ie, Internet Explorer on a Windows PC and Safari on an Apple Mac)
  • applicants who belonged to one or two online social networks tended to stay in their jobs for longer than those who belonged to four or more social networks
Benno Hansen

Heat, Drought Linked to Violence Worldwide - weather.com - 1 views

www.weather.com/...ed-violence-worldwide-20130801

violence weather climate change war statistics

shared by Benno Hansen on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.
  • A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.
  • studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures
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  • In agricultural areas, where climate affects the economy, violence may increase because of weather-caused poor economic conditions.
Benno Hansen

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment - 3 views

www.nature.com/...hod-statistical-errors-1.14700

statistics data probability

shared by Benno Hansen on 13 Feb 14 - No Cached
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    ""P values are not doing their job, because they can't,""
Benno Hansen

Most important person on English-language wikipedia? Frank Sinatra | Technology | thegu... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rtant-person-english-wikipedia

wikipedia statistics algorithm history bias

shared by Benno Hansen on 29 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • "Our analysis shows that most important historical figures across Wikipedia language editions are born in western countries after the 17th century, and are male,"
  • PageRank says that a page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.
  • The most important person in the world comes out as Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist
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  • Since Linnaeus' life work was coming up with a system to classify organisms, and applying that system as widely as possible, he is linked to from a lot of pages, and important ones at that.
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