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I posted earlier today on the issue of education and unemployment. In that post I suggested the a plot of the unemployment rate vs age by education would be a better plot than the one shown over at Calculated Risk. The plot above show that data based on calculations I did today using the 2011 […]
If we saw that headline we might just laugh. But a few weeks ago the media was abuzz with the opposite conclusion. A Minnesota station said ‘U’ Study: Breakfast Could Decrease Diabetes Risk saying the study “links the meal to a decrease in risk for type 2 diabetes” based on a study at the University […]
Combine a poorly designed question with a poor analysis and what to you get? Last week the Washington Post conducted a survey on the Washington area Metro asking questions about attitudes and reasons for not using the system. A piece of the graphic they used to display the data is posted on the right. The […]