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Stats With Cats Blog
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Stats With Cats Blog is a personal blog at statswithcats.wordpress.com about data and science. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “30 Samples. Standard, Suggestion, or Superstition? (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its statistics posts, including one on the origin of the 30-samples rule of thumb. The only comment mentions it in passing as a joke and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
... for when you can't solve life's problems with statistics alone.
Most-linked posts?
- 30 Samples. Standard, Suggestion, or Superstition? (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-11
What Hacker News says?
> let POP_SIZE = 50 c'mon everyone knows genetic population is 30 (I kid I kid but that number has an interesting story https://statswithcats.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/30-samples-st... )
Comment linking /2010/07/11/30-samples-standard-suggestion-or-superstition/
on “A Very Simple Genetic Algorithm Written in Swift 3”Submitted Ten Fatal Flaws in Data Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30 Samples. Standard, Suggestion, or Superstition? (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can Lead a Boss to Data but You Can’t Make Him Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussion