Comments on: Yahoo and Google – who has the youngest audience? http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988 Mathematics, learning, computing, travel - and whatever... Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988/comment-page-1#comment-16952 Peter Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:48:42 +0000 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988#comment-16952 This is terrible statistics. How can they draw that conclusion? I like the sound of Mathmom's course - everybody should study such a course. This is terrible statistics. How can they draw that conclusion?

I like the sound of Mathmom’s course – everybody should study such a course.

]]> By: zac http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988/comment-page-1#comment-16854 zac Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:27:12 +0000 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988#comment-16854 Hi Mathmom. Actually, this wasn't a student in this case. It was from Hitwise, which is a respected internet stats company. Hi Mathmom.

Actually, this wasn’t a student in this case. It was from Hitwise, which is a respected internet stats company.

]]> By: mathmom http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988/comment-page-1#comment-16851 mathmom Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:55:50 +0000 http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/yahoo-and-google-who-has-the-youngest-audience/988#comment-16851 When I was an undergraduate, we had a class for math majors entitled "Uses and Abuses of Statistics". It was very popular, because it was an easy math credit, but it was also very useful. It taught us to be on the lookout for "abuses" like the one you discuss here. (I doubt it was an intentional abuse on the part of the student in this case, but often the effect is intentional, especially where politics may be involved...) When I was an undergraduate, we had a class for math majors entitled “Uses and Abuses of Statistics”. It was very popular, because it was an easy math credit, but it was also very useful. It taught us to be on the lookout for “abuses” like the one you discuss here. (I doubt it was an intentional abuse on the part of the student in this case, but often the effect is intentional, especially where politics may be involved…)

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