Income inequality – yet another measure

With President Obama visiting the Pope I thought I would go back to a report from about two weeks ago about income inequality in the District of Columbia. The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute put forth a paper that put the District of Columbia income gap “one of the biggest in the U.S.” The report started […]

Posted by Larry on March 28th, 2014 | Comments Off on Income inequality – yet another measure Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media

A potential Alzheimer’s test

Last week there was media abuzz about a potential Alzheimer’s test. The work was led by Howard Federoff, a professor of neurology and executive vice president for health sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center and published in Nature Medicine. I emailed the author over a week ago and requested a copy of the paper. I […]

Posted by Larry on March 21st, 2014 | Comments Off on A potential Alzheimer’s test Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media, Where's the Data?

Probabilities and the Warren Buffett March madness challenge

Warren Buffett has put forth a challenge for anyone to try to pick the winners of all 63 matches in the March madness NCAA tournament. The odds of getting it right were quoted as anywhere from one in 4,294,967,296 or one in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 at the Forbes website. The one in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 seems to have gotten […]

Posted by Larry on March 19th, 2014 | 1 Comment Posted in Methodolgy Issues, The Media
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