A blog reader sent me a link to this UK news article — really, it’s a lesson in statistical literacy, so thanks to the BBC for that. In the web piece, “Can chance make you a killer?“, Dr. Deming’s famous lessons from the “Red Bead Game” are illustrated in the context of deciding, based on data, which hospitals or doctors have patient death rates so high that negligence would be implied. Are you fluent in … Continue reading The Red Bead Game Applied to Medical Errors