Income inequaltiy – Change the list

Last summer CCN asked readers to vote for topics from a long list of social issues. The five topics with the highest vote counts were selected for future stories. This became their “Change the List” series. This week they posted the piece on income inequality titled “The most unequal place in America.” While the issue […]

Posted by Larry on October 30th, 2013 | Comments Off on Income inequaltiy – Change the list Posted in Data Quality, Graphics Visualization, How to Lie with Statisics, Methodolgy Issues, The Media

Understanding reported changes in median income

This is the time of year when the Census Bureau releases data on the income and health in the United States. It is also a time when in the rush to tell the American people what is happening in the nation and in their own communities that the media gets the story very badly wrong. […]

Posted by Larry on September 19th, 2013 | 1 Comment Posted in Graphics Visualization, How to Lie with Statisics, Methodolgy Issues, The Media

Recession has further polarized families

Such was the title of a piece in the Washington Post on a report by Zhenchao Qian in the Department of Sociology of The Ohio State University titled: “Divergent Paths of American Families” The title was actually used in the print edition of the article. The online edition title was “Children suffer from growing economic […]

Posted by Larry on September 12th, 2013 | Comments Off on Recession has further polarized families Posted in Graphics Visualization, Methodolgy Issues, Statistical Literacy, The Media
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