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The Guttmacher Institute released a report this past Monday titled: “Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level: Estimates for 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.” After reading the report I was reminded of a former supervisor’s term for statistical research that went too far. He called it “polishing to soles of your shoes.” I wonder if […]
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 […]
Two studies have been in the news recently touting the benefits of breastfeeding. The first linked breastfeeding to improved intelligence for the child. The second study claimed that the breastfeeding may reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s. The full paper on the link between IQ and breast feeding is not available online. However the abstract can […]