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Chocolate can help you stay slim<\/a> – gotta love statistics for bringing such insights to the world<\/em>
\nAbuses of statistics in psychological research<\/a> [paper discussed by W. Briggs<\/a>]
\nA nice map of media popularity in the US states at Forbes
\nPolicy experiments in Sweden<\/a> [at the wonderful Development Impact<\/a> blog]<\/p>\n

The Strait of Gibraltar – photo by ESA<\/a>
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Chocolate can help you stay slim – gotta love statistics for bringing such insights to the world Abuses of statistics in psychological research [paper discussed by W. Briggs] A nice map of media popularity in the US states at Forbes Policy experiments in Sweden [at the wonderful Development Impact blog] The Strait of Gibraltar – photo by ESA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-6A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":500,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=500","url_meta":{"origin":408,"position":0},"title":"Hyperlinks","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since the last post but I am slowly getting back on track after the triple shock from the arrival of a new family member, a new house and a new office (which all happened within a week during the summer). 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