Presenting Results – Washington Post Opinion Survey

In today’s edition of the Washington Post there was an article “Obama holds clear lead over Romney” which presented results from a recent opinion survey on the current view of the public towards the two candidates. I want to focus on a small piece of how the results were presented. Below is a scanned image […]

Posted by Larry on April 10th, 2012 | Comments Off on Presenting Results – Washington Post Opinion Survey Posted in Graphics Visualization, Methodolgy Issues

AJC Analysis of School Testing Data – Is There Cheating?

This past Sunday the Atlanta Journal Constitution published a major article titled: “Cheating our Children.” This was a follow-up to their investigation into cheating on school tests in the Atlanta, Georgia a few years back. This time they tacked the difficult task of looking for evidence of cheating beyond the Atlanta area. Let me first […]

Posted by Larry on March 29th, 2012 | Comments Off on AJC Analysis of School Testing Data – Is There Cheating? Posted in Methodolgy Issues

NBC Nightly News & Marriage – They Should Read the Report Then do the Reporting

The NBC Nightly News last night (Thursday March 22nd) reported on the state a marriage in the United States. The data they said came from “the government.” It did not take too much effort to identify the source. It was a new report put out by the National Center for Health Statistics(NCHS) under the Center […]

Posted by Larry on March 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off on NBC Nightly News & Marriage – They Should Read the Report Then do the Reporting Posted in Methodolgy Issues
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