Brendon Brewer

Brendon Brewer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics in Auckland.

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What Experts Do and Don't Know

Humans around the world have knowledge about many things. Some of it is the kind one might write essays about, or learn about in graduate courses at university.

Brendon Brewer

27 Jul 2016 · 7 min read

The Mathematics of Happiness

It is popular wisdom that there are many things in this world that just can’t be quantified. It may be the case, as sociologist William Bruce Cameron suggested, that “not all the counts can be counted”.

Brendon Brewer

3 Jun 2016 · 8 min read

Unscrambling the Second Law of Thermodynamics

All these specific conditions (loud volume, correct support, a vowel that works) must be met in order to sing a high note.

Brendon Brewer

28 Jan 2016 · 15 min read

The Great Statistical Schism

In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.

Brendon Brewer

13 Nov 2015 · 7 min read