Stuart Coles

Farewell So, farewell to Daniel Kahneman, who died aged 90 this week. I've mentioned before that in a previous Smartodds offsite, when Matthew...

The dinner conundrum You've been invited to dinner and feel like you should take a bottle of wine. Is it ok just to buy a cheap bottle of wine, or...

Talent and Attractiveness   Do attractive people tend to be less talented? Look at the following graph which shows the relationship between...

In the spirit of Christmas, this post contains a statistical puzzle and a link to other puzzles that, while not explicitly statistical themselves,...

I'm a terrible parent. My 18 year-old son will almost always beat me at anything: chess, skiing, cards, cycling... pretty much everything. Except...

The Question In the last post I mentioned a problem that I'd discussed with Anders, who had kindly written to me after following the blog for a...

Though it's had a couple of lapses and the format has evolved, 'Smartodds loves Statistics' is 5 years old now. In that time there have been 210...

From a statistical point of view, a striking fact about the recent trail of Lucy Letby for the murder and attempted murder of multiple babies in her...

Introduction As a postscript to the previous post, I set the following puzzle: You've got a match ticket in a small section of the Gtech Community...

Introduction Being able to count the number of different ways events can occur is a fundamental skill that's necessary for many types of probability...

This post links three icons. Icon 1: Erling Haaland Basic facts: Age: 22 years...

Racism in Italian Football There's plenty of evidence of individual episodes of racism in Italian football stadiums: here, here, here, here.......