Stats, Stats, and More Stats

Most would consider the following site, it's a numeric life, a pretty boring site:

numericlife.blogspot.com/

Actually, it is a random gathering of recent social science statistics. And interestingly, a big focus on how lifestyle affects health. Sociologists - the ones who are not devout socialists, (those practicing "conflict theory") that is - have for a long time emphasized this fact our health is largely affected by our lifestyles. Although there is a lot not having to do with health, and there is a bit of faux humor statistics - although this is not a humor site.

The dominant feature of this site is it's neutrality. Which is what one would expect from a site devoted to statistics. There appears to be no hidden agenda in making this blog.

However, the topics are too scattered. While the site can make up for this fact by being entertaining, it is not. It could make up for this fact too by having a greater focus, and presenting statistics as some kind of theme, but it does this neither. Essentially, it is a social-science-statitics-lite source - and there are tomes much thicker in statistics. In other words, it is a simplified version of what a sociologist professor could present in an huge, arcane book (to keep up with his publishing). Nonetheless, it is a source worth consulting if you ever need to obtain this information.

Grade: B