'Statistics' Category
Know the Game
“Step One is always ‘Understand the rules’ - that’s the difference between baseball and fantasy baseball.”
- Ike PigottThe Mighty Mite 50
Congratulations to a fellow communicator for a job well done. Todd And(rlik) created a fairly objective index to measure PR and Marketing blogs according to popularity, reach, influence, and the ‘it’ factor. The Power 150 was good enough that he’s letting it leave his little nest, and fly to a loftier perch [...]
I am a mathematician
…or at least more so than the guy who claims to be one in the latest “Screw-Big-Oil” e-mails that is wafting past my inbox.
This one has THIS IS NOT THE ‘DON’T BUY’ GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON in it. [...]Pigott’s Equation of Flight
“If your number of successful takeoffs is greater than your number of successful landings, you’re either still in the air, very lucky, or very dead.”
- Ike PigottDigital Manipulation
To be a society so poorly versed in things mathematical, we sure are obsessed with numbers. Just look at what’s happened in our sports culture. We like high scores (because scores are easy to compare to one another), and we like statistics. Football, with high scoring and punctuated violence made perfect for [...]
