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February 7, 2009
Another take on bad statistics at Wired
In bad statistics at wired I discussed an article over at Wired where they suggest that the Playboy Playmates are rapidly becoming cartoon parodies of real women. I argued that was mostly because young American women had become fatter and the Playmates had not.
Mahalanobis has another take over at Re: Today's Playmates (Wired) he points out that "Playmate BMI reached a low in the mid 80ies and afterwards actually trended slightly upwards". He also tipped me off to the fact that the article is online (Infoporn: Today's Playmates Are More Like Anime Figures Than Real Humans) and so is the BMI data.
Posted by OneEyedMan at February 7, 2009 9:34 AM
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