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What not to do with statisticsBy Celia Banks, PhD and Paul Boothroyd IIIByIntroductionSince Tyler Vigen coined the term ‘spurious correlations’ for “any random correlations dredged up from silly data” (Vigen, 2014) see: Tyler Vigen’s personal website, there have been many articles that pay tribute to the perils and pitfalls of this whimsical tendency to manipulate statistics to make correlation equal causation. See: HBR (2015), Medium (2016), FiveThirtyEight (2016). As data scientists, we are tasked with providing…

Working as a babysitter is tough. Not only do you have to take care of the kids, but you also have to be mindful of any requests from parents to maintain a good reputation. One issue that babysitters face is that many of them aren’t paid as much as they’d like for their efforts. So, the chance to up their earnings is usually appreciated.Kansas City-based mom, teacher, and small business owner Katrina Ivan, who is known as @kivankc on TikTok, has recently gone viral after giving her babysitter a list of chores that she…

Kelly Rowland reportedly had a classic diva complaint about an inadequate dressing room, which led her to dramatically walk off NBC’s “Today” show last week, minutes before she was due to guest-host the morning show’s fourth hour with Hoda Kotb, a new report said. Sources close to the situation told TMZ that the former “Destiny’s Child” singer arrived at NBC on Feb. 15,  just before 8 a.m. She already was “in full glam,” but she and her team immediately complained about the condition of her assigned dressing room. NEW…

For Kelly Rowland, daytime host Sherri Shepherd is the “light, positive energy” she needed.On Monday, the “Mea Culpa” star praised the “Sherri” host as she promoted her upcoming Netflix film. Before getting into the details of her erotic thriller, Rowland told the TV host, “We needed you.” The singer-actor voiced her gratitude for Shepherd days after she reportedly walked out of NBC’s “Today” show last week. The former Destiny’s Child artist was set to appear alongside “Today” host Hoda Kotb on Thursday but dropped out…

Blended families come with change; one minute it’s you and your immediate family, next minute this immediate family expands to a new set of people. Now all of a sudden, you might have to share a room and sometimes even outfits. It could be a bit uncomfortable, even for the most accommodating person. This poster had to deal with one of these changes when her stepsister got pregnant and her parents expected her to be accommodating even though she already was. This kept going on until she reached her breaking point –…

Martin Scorsese heads into this year’s Academy Awards the most nominated living director, with 10 nods – and one win – in the best director category. His latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, has 10 nominations, including best picture and best director.Scorsese has announced plans to shoot his next film, about the life of Jesus, later this year, meaning an awards push for that movie in 2026 or 2027. Yet a new report suggests the film-maker, 81, may make a surprise appearance at next year’s Oscars on account of his…

Despite launching only a few weeks ago, Masters of the Air is already Apple TV Plus’ biggest show ever and it’s not even close. As reported by Variety, Masters of the Air received more viewers in the opening weekend than any other show on Apple TV Plus has received in their entire first season. This places it above hits like Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Severance, Invasion, and Hijack. Also in that report, it was revealed that “viewership across all of Apple TV Plus climbed by 65% worldwide when compared to the previous…

Napoleon Actor Joaquin Phoenix (Picture Credit: IMDb) Joaquin Phoenix is one actor whose versatility has no bounds. From Her to Joker, the actor has time and again proved why he’s one of the best male actors in Hollywood. Last year, the Academy Award winner impressed everyone with her remarkable act in the movie Napoleon. He owned every scene with a supporting cast that was as good as him. Napoleon was released in theatres on November 22, 2023. The movie received a positive response from the film critics. Since…

What starts as a pastiche of a classic western – Viggo Mortensen stars as a stranger in a hostile frontier town – takes a sudden swerve into the unexpected when the story baton is passed to a put-upon present-day female cop working a night shift in a Native American reservation. Then, through a magical realist flourish featuring a large bird, the location switches again, this time to the Brazilian jungle some time in the past.This shape-shifting picture from experimental Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is a formally…

Sumptuous, sensual and impossibly handsome, at first glance French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung’s lavish foodie romance The Taste of Things looks like just another decorous prestige period drama. But in its elegantly restrained way, Tran’s film, which is set almost entirely in the kitchen, grounds and dining room of the country chateau of famed gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel) in 1880s France, is every bit as radical and risk-taking as some of the showier, quirkier awards contenders this year (it was France’s…