Sniffing out a bad statistic

My friend and medical colleague John Fraser once said to me that I could sniff out a bad dataset like he could sniff out a patient in trouble. Regardless of their blood results or history, John can look at a patient, and his instincts tell him that’s something wrong. John has seen a lot of patients, I have seen a lot of numbers. Your skills build up. Homeless numbers Earlier this year, my local…