Here are a few recent podcasts that are worth listening to. They all have a foundation in statistics, and if you are not questioning everything stats you here in the media, you should and you will.

Knowing statistics and statistical learning breaks down a lot of barriers in day to day life. Correlation does not mean causation is the term that rings through my head every day. Just because to variables are moving together does not mean they effect each other.

On the other hand, after listening to the four podcasts below, it not just a correlation problem, its results that cannot be reproduced problem. Its drug companies performing trials on the healthiest possible pool of subjects, imagine testing an asthma medication on an olympic athlete that has asthma, do you think that would be representative of you and me?

Hidden Brain – Encore of Episode 32: The Scientific Process

Freakonomics- Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

Freakonomics- Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

Freakonomics- Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis

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