Sex by NumbersDavid Spiegelhalter
Sex by Numbers
by David Spiegelhalter · first published 2015
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Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists - professionals who study sexual behaviour - pretty difficult. Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambridge University, is here to unravel the web of exaggerations, misdirections and downright lies that surround sex in modern society. Drawing on the NATSAL survey, the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, he answers crucial questions such as what are we all doing? How often? An
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For practical statistic done well, I recommend "Sex by Numbers" by David Spiegelhalter (https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Numbers-Wellcome-David-Spiegelhal...). I am reading Sex by Numbers, which I enjoy a lot. It's a touchy subject with a lot of data of varying quality.…
on “Statistics Done Wrong” ↗…to be the same - just imagine a bipartite graph (undirected!) and count the lines going from left to right and compare with the number of lines going from right to left). See eg. David Spiegelhalter, Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour, chapter 3.
on “Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets” ↗