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Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:02PM from the there's-a-lap-for-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"

Comment Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Score 1) 429

by DuncanFoley on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @11:14PM (#31518636) Attached to: Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics

The clearest discussion of the logic of probability reasoning I know of is E.T. Jaynes' Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. (Cambridge University Press). Many of Jaynes' excellent papers on statistics are downloadable from http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/etj.html.

Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System 135

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 12, 2010 @07:36PM from the we're-doomed dept.

PipianJ writes "A recent preprint posted on arXiv by Vadim Bobylev presents some startling new numbers about a future close pass of one of our stellar neighbors. Based on studies of the Hipparcos catalog, Bobylev suggests that the nearby orange dwarf Gliese 710 has an 86% chance of skirting the outer bounds of the Solar System and the hypothesized Oort Cloud in the next 1.5 million years. As the Oort Cloud is thought to be the source of many long-period comets, the gravitational effects of Gliese's passing could send a shower of comets into the inner Solar System, threatening Earth. This news about Gliese 710 isn't exactly new, but it's one of the first times the probability of this near-miss has been quantified."

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