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CNN last week came up with one big blunder. Annalyn Censky at CNN published a piece titled: “The 86 million invisible unemployed.” It does not take too much thought to realize this is an absurd number. With 86 million unemployed that would mean that over 25 percent of the entire population of the United States […]
The Atlanta Journal Constitution launched round two in its investigation into cheating on school achievement tests. The best that can be said about the piece is that they found an expected correlation and decided that was evidence of school cheating. Last month I described how they had studied school test scores and conclude that the […]
The April 30, 2012 issue of Fortune includes an article by Nina Easton titled “Don’t blame the 1% for America’s pay gap.” The piece was published on line by CNN. The primary thesis seem to be an exoneration of the 1% by saying that they are “a group of hard-driving workaholics who tend to have […]