Do people really USE statistical
evidence? Recent economic issues in
global climate change policy
The more work I do
in policy analysis, the less comfortable I am with how
we use statistical evidence in public decisions. Maybe that's just
me. I'll show you some recent work on electric energy production and greenhouse gas emissions and talk about how our
efforts to impart even the simple notion of variance about the mean have
been rebuffed. In the process, we can examine
some of the ways in which economists apply statistics and, perhaps, how
statisticians apply economics.