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Spooky Math Story: The Haunted House

October 25, 2017Original blog post

They said the house was haunted. We scoffed. To be safe, we compared its spooky creaks per night to a control house: n = 365, mean 23.7 vs. 16.4, p < 0.0001. We screamed.

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They said the house was haunted. We scoffed. To be safe, we compared its spooky creaks per night to a control house: n = 365, mean 23.7 vs. 16.4, p < 0.0001. We screamed.

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