Food and Drink

ESPN Playbook investigates controversial UM-OSU pizza connection with help from ‘Living the Faith’

by Brianne Johnson November 29, 2012

There are few things Michigan students love more than coach Bo Schembechler and pizza. But many fans — of both the Wolverines and of the occasional (ahem, frequent) extra-cheesy slice — don’t know that the two share something (or someone) in common: Tom Monaghan.

Freakonomics and WaPo blogs pick up Ziliak’s Guinness study

by Shaun Manning February 13, 2012

Statistics and beer continue to be a winning combination, as the popular Freakonomics blog and Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog at the Washington Post picked up the story of Stephen T. Ziliak’s recent paper on the study of Guinness in the Journal of Wine Economics. Ziliak, co-author with Deirdre N. McCloskey of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives, has been an outspoken critic of research methods that elevate the importance of statistical significance over more subjective–but often more relevent–factors such as the magnitude of an effect or the quality produced. “Gosset (1876–1937) aka [...]

Beer and Stats: Chicago Magazine covers Ziliak’s Guinness Experiment

by Shaun Manning February 10, 2012

Stephen T. Ziliak, co-author with Deirdre n. McCloskey of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives, is the subject of a Chicago Magazine blog post on “Guinness beer and Guinnessometrics.” The Chicago piece summarizes Ziliak’s paper in the Journal of Wine Economics, which focuses on the work on an early 20th-century chemist-turned-brewer at Guinness. After a discussion of the experiments undertaken by William Sealy Gosset–aka “Student”–testing the three main ingredients for stout, Ziliak comes around to a conclusion that is very much in keeping with the argument of U-M Press book, that [...]

Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It…Fifteen Years Later: Legislation Banning Sale and Marketing of Tobacco Products To Teenagers To Go Into Effect

by kris bishop April 8, 2010

According to a recent New York Times Article, fifteen years after the Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning the sale and marketing of tobacco products to teenagers, government officials announced last month that they would finally put the rule into effect. The rule was hugely controversial when first proposed in 1995 and was never adopted by the agency because of a Supreme Court ruling that legislation was needed to empower the F.D.A. to regulate tobacco products. That legislation was passed and signed by President Obama last June, and the rule will go into effect June 22, 2010. In Suing [...]

GOOD DRINK: Author Steve Z hangs out in the Guinness Archives

by kris bishop March 17, 2009

A St. Patrick’s Day “non-endorsement,” story, and random fact from PROF STEVE ZILIAK, co-author of THE CULT OF STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives “William Sealy Gosset, an amiable, rucksack-wearing chemist who – beginning in 1899 – worked all his adult life for Guinness and eventually rose to the rank of head brewer, is the hero of The Cult. So a couple months ago I was in the reading room of the Guinness Archives, Dublin, when a couple guys entered the room…