Welcome

Welcome all to my new blog. I am a Ph.D student in statistics and wish to talk about issues "everyone" cares about, but may have a difficult time discussing in an objective way. When I say issues "everyone" cares about, I mostly mean issues I care about, but I think there will be plenty of overlapping. I have an interest in sports, investing, home improvement, pixar movies, cool gadgets, political races, and wildlife to name a few. I am planning to find a few interesting topics, research some actual data, and hopefully provide some meaningful commentary.


The name of the blog "alwaystellmetheodds" may not be familiar to everyone, but if you enjoy star wars movies as much as I do, you know of Han Solo's famous quote "Never tell me the odds." He says this in The Empire Strikes Back movie as he is being chased by Imperial Star Destroyers and Starfighters and is about to enter an astroid field. He is warned by C-3P0 that "the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1."  Here is the clip (the famous quote is around 1:55 mark of the video):

My interpretation is that Han Solo, all knowing, didn't need to be told "the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1." He made his decision to enter the astroid field because he knew his odds of survival were better by entering the astroid field than staying in the open and being fired on by all the Imperial ships. Really, Han Solo made a calculation and made an informed statistical decision to enter the astroid field. 


Anyway, this is the sort of important topics I will be discussing on my blog.