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For example, for the “hockey-stick” issue, IIRC, outside statisticians were brought in.

Software Quality in Climate Research | Serendipity 2009

Anybody can produce great spreadsheets with hockey-stick numbers; hitting them is the hard part.

Angela Haines: Why Pitching Investors Sometimes Misfires Angela Haines 2011

Unlike the usual "hockey-stick" graph that accompanies global warming articles, this one shows a much longer term graph derived from Antarctic ice cores.

Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Anybody can produce great spreadsheets with hockey-stick numbers; hitting them is the hard part.

Angela Haines: Why Pitching Investors Sometimes Misfires Angela Haines 2011

Possibly the most important criticism in the Muir Russell review is their finding that "given its subsequent iconic significance (not least the use of a similar figure in the TAR), the [hockey-stick] figure supplied for the WMO report was misleading" for not making clear that the tree-ring series had been truncated and instrumental data spliced on.

'Climategate' review: verdict Raymond Bradley 2010

Mann is best known as the author of the "hockey-stick" graph, which showed there has been a rapid, recent rise in the Earth's temperature.

Penn State clears Mann in Climate-gate probe 2010

The graph looks like the 'hockey-stick' that social media start-ups dream about see Chart 1.

Rudy Adler: The Rise of the Dead: How Many Ghosts Are on Facebook? Rudy Adler 2010

Mann is best known as the author of the "hockey-stick" graph, which showed there has been a rapid, recent rise in the Earth's temperature.

U-Va. goes to court to fight Cuccinelli's subpoena of ex-professor's documents 2010

The seasoned executive has seen too many hockey-stick market forecasts that oversimplify complex market dynamics to be anything but skeptical of such models.

Garbage In, Money Out 2010