Vampire Statistics and Other Mathematical Oddities
Document Type
Editorial
Department
Mathematics (CMC), Mathematics (Pomona)
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
statistics, mathematics
Abstract
The world tends to trust mathematicians and their numbers. By extension, the numbers generated by polls and surveys command much respect, sometimes beyond their deserved due. Thus, when an especially juicy statistic enters the public consciousness, it can take on a life of its own, long after new data superseded the old survey and should have driven a stake through its heart.
Rights Information
© 2011 Mark Huber and Gizem Karaali
Recommended Citation
Huber, M, and Karaali, G., Vampire statistics and other mathematical oddities, editorial, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 1 Issue 2 (July 2011), page 1. Available online at http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol1/iss2/2/
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