Jason Cohen 6/17: How the Wells report made fake statistics look believable

Chiuba E. Obele said:

Jason Cohen‏@jasonicohen
@BenVolin I wrote an article on the statistics in Wells report you might like. I have PhD in Probability & Statistics

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Huh, Ben Trollin has a Google search about Probability & Statistics.

Chiuba E. Obele said:

Jason Cohen‏@jasonicohen
@BenVolin I wrote an article on the statistics in Wells report you might like. I have PhD in Probability & Statistics

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I completely agree with his approach of making local media people aware of his article, but sending it to Volin? The first thing he will do is see if there is any Patriots employee with the last name Cohen and then claim a relative of one of Kraft's employees wrote the article

Based on his Twitter handle, this Jason Cohen seems to have a job in financial analytics.

And actually, I'll give anyone's argument a chance on its own merits. Sometimes people who are given credibility don't always deserve it. Accomplished people make dumb mistakes all the time. Look at Neil deGrasse Tyson

Kenneth Sims said:

The NFL and its network"partners" control the media. The public will never know how corrupt the NFL is until either the judicial or legislative branches of government expose it. Not likely since money controls the legislative branch as much as it does the media.

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F-ing FBI went after FIFA. They are elbows deep in the Cardinals organizations' rectum, yet the NFL goes humming along. Why doesn't someone, maybe an owner who isn't in the "group" take this massive amounts of evidence to the FBI? There is obvious massive impropriety going on here, yet nothing. Wonder why that is.

Chiuba E. Obele said:

http://jicohen.kinja.com/how-the-wells-report-made-fake-statistics-look-believab-1711898024

Very nice article suggested by @Mack Herron , and short read too!

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That's not an article that's going to change anyone's mind, particularly not anyone not versed in the manner in which scientists write. It's one of science's biggest problems: they simply do not know how to speak to laymen, and so lose the persuasion battle even when all evidence is on their side.

Searching through Jason Cohen on LinkedIn for someone with a PhD in Probability and Statistics, this must be him:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-cohen/43/18b/151

Education
Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematical Statistics and Probability
1995 – 1999

Brown University
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
1987 – 1991

current title:
Managing Director at Tower Research Capital
Greater New York City Area Investment Management

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no obvious MA roots

seems credible

They should make the appeal an NFL spinoff series. "Better Call Kessler?"

ViperGTS said:

F-ing FBI went after FIFA. They are elbows deep in the Cardinals organizations' rectum, yet the NFL goes humming along. Why doesn't someone, maybe an owner who isn't in the "group" take this massive amounts of evidence to the FBI? There is obvious massive impropriety going on here, yet nothing. Wonder why that is.

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Did you see how scared Kraft looked when giving his "other 31" statement? My guess is any owner who steps out of line trying to incite some kind of Federal investigation would be looking just as scared as Kraft.

These are ruthless people who run this league.

Tony Cahncuhd said:

Based on his Twitter handle, this Jason Cohen seems to have a job in financial analytics.

And actually, I'll give anyone's argument a chance on its own merits. Sometimes people who are given credibility don't always deserve it. Accomplished people make dumb mistakes all the time. Look at Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Looks like he and Ernie Adams should get together for a Big Bang Theory marathon.

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

Searching through Jason Cohen on LinkedIn for someone with a PhD in Probability and Statistics, this must be him:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-cohen/43/18b/151

Education
Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematical Statistics and Probability
1995 – 1999

Brown University
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
1987 – 1991

current title:
Managing Director at Tower Research Capital
Greater New York City Area Investment Management

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no obvious MA roots

seems credible

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He was at Brown for two years the same time as BOB.

So Kraft called BB who called BOB who called Cohen and asked him to a favor.

....and the mafia killed Kennedy.

Kenneth Sims said:

Did you see how scared Kraft looked when giving his "other 31" statement? My guess is any owner who steps out of line trying to incite some kind of Federal investigation would be looking just as scared as Kraft.

These are ruthless people who run this league.

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Correct. As I've written here many times, the NFL does what it wants, when it wants, to whom it wants with absolutely zero regard for or fear of any entity. That office has carte blanche. Laws don't matter, federal law enforcement doesn't matter, FBI, CIA, they fear no one. And history proves they have absolutely no reason to.

Yep.....If this were any other business, the Wells Report would be peer reviewed. Some pro, some con and eventually a consensus would be reached....maybe not in this case, because the reliability of the data is so lacking. But, notice, the NFL does not want the Wells Report reviewed.

To the OP, how did you find this article? It would get 100000x more exposure if it was linked from Kinja's own Deadspin site. I check that site regularly and did not see this article. Hopefully wellsreportcontext.com adds this to its list.

Also Jason Cohen would benefit from using Deadspin's preferred term of BALLGHAZI to tag his article.

@juny wrote your suggestions to the author....thanks!

Would have been better without ad hom attacks. It's best to avoid logical fallacies when trying to stake a claim to being logical.

Sounds like a bright guy. Here is what I found. He got a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Browns University from 1987-1991. He then got a job at Oracle on their Technical Staff from 1991-1995. He then returned to University and got his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics and Probability from Cornell University from 1995-1999. He then returned to the working world as a Quantitative Analyst at AVM LP in 1999-2000. He since has increasing responsibility at different financial firms over the years and now is Managing Director at Tower Research Capital which is based in the Greater New York City Area from 2008 to present.

Canuck said:

Sounds like a bright guy. Here is what I found. He got a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Browns University from 1987-1991.

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Is that in Cleveland?

No matter his personal credentials he is still a no name guy and no one outside our insular fan community will care what he says.

Tony Cahncuhd said:

Based on his Twitter handle, this Jason Cohen seems to have a job in financial analytics.

And actually, I'll give anyone's argument a chance on its own merits. Sometimes people who are given credibility don't always deserve it. Accomplished people make dumb mistakes all the time. Look at Neil deGrasse Tyson

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NdT did get it right the second time around. His argument ended up being that temperature change alone could not account for a drop of 2 psi, which is correct. Of course, what he didn't realize at the time (becuase the NFL had forbidden the Patriots from disclosing it) was that none of the balls had dropped by anywhere near 2 psi.