labor March 21, 2022 We Are Measuring the Wrong Things About the Labor Movement Nick Driedger Organizing Work Nick Driedger argues that most metrics by which unions are measured obscure what is really important.
April 25, 2021 How Covid Upended a Century of Patterns in U.S. Deaths Denise Lu New York Times The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal since the early 1900s — even surpassing the calamity of the 1918 flu pandemic.
July 7, 2019 A Better Way To Think About June’s Jobs Numbers Julia Wolfe FiveThirtyEight The context you need to understand job growth and unemployment in the U.S., updated every month.
March 13, 2016 Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values Christie Aschwanden FiveThirtyEight How many statisticians does it take to ensure at least a 50 percent chance of a disagreement about p-values?
May 31, 2015 The Missing Statistics of Criminal Justice Matt Ford The Atlantic An abundance of data has fueled the reform movement, but from prisons to prosecutors, crucial questions remain unquantified.
November 3, 2013 When Numbers Are Used for a Witch Hunt Evelyn Lamb Scientific American This statistics stuff is important. The correct analysis and interpretation of statistics are sometimes a matter of life and death.
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