On Fri, October 17, 2008 13:56, Hugo Mills wrote:
> <rant>
>    Can we make all science and technology journalists take a mandatory
> course in statistics and data presentation, please?
> </rant>
You're on a lost cause I think. If you enjoy rants about bad
science journalism, Ben Goldacre's site[1] is a good place to
check, if you haven't seen it.
[1] http://www.badscience.net/
    (and the book is quite good as well, and covers the point
     you raised above)
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