Of Averages, Standard Deviations, Confidence Intervals, Probability

Worth noting perhaps that "Statistician" is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the American workplace:
http://thisisstatistics.org/statistician-projected-as-top-10-fastest-growing-job/

Some stat-related pieces catching my attention recently...

1)  Starting with the simplest, Todd Rose looks at learning and "averages" in this interview from NPR (...none of us are "average"):
http://tinyurl.com/jeryann

2)  More technical is Chris Harrow's look at standard deviations and sample size for his secondary math classroom:
https://casmusings.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/straightening-standard-deviations/

3)  Meanwhile, Deborah Mayo questions Nate Silver's explication of confidence intervals (includes interesting comment thread):
http://errorstatistics.com/2016/02/12/rubbing-off-uncertainty-confidence-and-nate-silver/

4)  And just this morning comes a long post from Jim Propp on probabilities involved in lottery values (and hat detection ;-):
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/when-not-to-expect-what-youre-expecting-3/

If stats aren't your thing then skip all these, but really, everyone should be acquainting themselves more with statistics.