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What students are talking about today (November 6th edition)

Obama’s odds, no-money-down tuition, Halo 4 & a drug bust

274.5? 315? A U.S. election apéritif

Colby Cosh works to extract a signal from the noise while offering a lesson from the Alberta election

Tarnished Silver: Assessing the new king of stats

Nate Silver’s attackers don’t know what they’re talking about. (Nor do his defenders)

Mind the ‘credibility’ gap

Colby Cosh finds out what subsets, modelling assumptions and ‘non-probability samples’ have to do with polling these days