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Sharon Lohr — Blog

Sharon Lohr researches and writes about statistics: where they come from, how to interpret them, and how to tell the good statistics from the bad.

  • By Sharon Lohr
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly 10 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2020 5
2021 8
2022 6
2023 8
2024 7

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics
It’s time for my annual update on crime statistics, following the September release of 2023 numbers by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). We …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 2,818 words
How AI Created a Nonexistent Statistician
I recently finished preparing Powerpoint slides for a talk titled “Ahead of the Trends: J.N.K. Rao’s Contributions to Survey Research,” that I will present in November at the Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium on “Shaping …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 2,344 words
George Washington, Survey-Taker
Figure 1. Survey done in 1949 by 17-year-old George Washington, County Surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia. Source: https://virginiahistory.org/learn/george-washington-land-surveyor. I learned two things about George Washington’s early life in school: the cherry tree “I cannot tell …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 1,601 words