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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 eight posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2020 5
2021 8
2022 6
2023 8
2024 2

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

Most recent posts

Does Asphalt Art Improve Traffic Safety?
The safety statistics presented at a recent Tempe, AZ neighborhood meeting sounded impressive. The speaker was proposing “asphalt art” — painting designs on the intersection and crosswalks as in Figure 1 — for a neighborhood …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 2,849 words
Data for Vote Decisions in a City Council Election
Tempe Arizona residents were recently sent mail ballots for the city council election of March 12, 2024. Three of the five candidates on the ballot are to be elected to the council. A voter may …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 1,422 words
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Misquotations
What may be the most famous statistics quotation of all time is commonly attributed to Mark Twain: “There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But Twain attributed the saying to British …
On , by Sharon Lohr, 1,456 words