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		biohacker42 on May 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hooray: The Second Derivative of the Unemployment ... I never thought I would be a fan of writing about statistics. But Nate Silver has become a must-read.

joe_the_user on May 9, 2009 [–]

Uh,

Sure, it sounds clever but taking the second derivative of noisy data is poor statistics as far I'm concerned.

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