plots

Kevin Connolly has very kindly sent me a new improved plot of the gender mnemonics data using Excel 2007 which really is awfully nice.

Best excuse ever

My dear friend Rafe Donahue has sent many helpful suggestions with regard to ggplot2. He comments: Don't think of the ± of 0.2 to each o...

losing the plot

In the previous post I mentioned the results of a couple of tests on memorisation of articles in a language class. A reader pointed out that...

pin factories and such

Via Marginal Revolution, came to a post by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics on specialisation -- linked, on the one hand, to our failure to s...

the bug in Excel

In Meknes, just checking emails to see if Justin Smith has set up an appointment with my dentist to fix my broken tooth on my return to Berl...