86 million invisible unemployed??????

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 […]

Indictment by Correlation

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 […]

How Not to Collect Data

The local media yesterday was reporting on a survey conducted by AAA, 495 Express Lanes and Orange Cones No Phones on cell phone use and accidents in constructions zones. I was greeted with the following from WUSA: According to a 495 Express Lanes and Orange Cones. No Phones survey of 402 law enforcement officers in […]

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