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CDC Stats on COVID-19 Deaths Obscure Structural Racism
By Morgan Sherburne-Michigan Researcher Lauren Zalla discovered that the CDC was using a statistical method that controls for geography when reporting deaths from COVID-19 by race and ethnicity. This...
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Rare Charity Welcomes Nine Secondary School Scholars
With the start of a new school year in Malawi, Rare Charity has successfully implemented its “Back to School Project”, an initiative undertaken to support girls to continue their education in the...
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How a Dead Guy Is Making Sure You Don’t Cheat on Your Taxes
By Jeff Cooper I’d be willing to bet most of us have no idea who Frank Benford is, but he’s certainly keeping an eye on you. Every year millions of people around the world need to file their taxes...
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365 Days of Climate Awareness 70 – Intro to Statistics
Statistics is the branch of math which deals with data. As a fluid dynamics professor of mine put it years ago, when reality is too complicated, and we can’t track every individual event, we resort...
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60 Personal Finance Statistics You Might Not Know (But Should!)
Personal anecdotes provide you with minimal information, and clickbait headlines can be misleading. Financial statistics don’t lie. The better informed you are about personal finance, the easier it...
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Statistics May Be Against Us but Our Relationship Is Thriving
My husband and I have been together for ten years. We began dating during our last year of high school. We were in a long-distance relationship for five years while we went to separate universities....
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What Words Can Convey
By Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research | MIT News From search engines to voice assistants, computers are getting better at understanding what we mean. That’s thanks to...
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UN Slavery Estimate Raises Question: Are 50 Million People Really Enslaved...
By Monti Datta, University of Richmond According to the United Nations, about 50 million people are enslaved worldwide. The report, released Sept. 12, 2022, by the U.N.‘s International Labor...
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Healthy Habits Start Here: Piano Therapy for Diabetes Wellness
By Beatrice Louisa Cruz If you’ve been following my blog, you’re probably aware that I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called RA, rheumatoid arthritis. That’s why I relate so well with so...
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What’s the Difference Between Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence?
John Naughton’s article in The Guardian, “Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’”, provides an entertaining read about a machine learning issue I always focus...
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Declines in Math Readiness Underscore the Urgency of Math Awareness
By Manil Suri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few...
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If 1% Of COVID-19 Cases Result in Death, Does That Mean You Have a 1% Chance...
By Joseph Stover, Gonzaga University As of April 2023, about 1% of people who contracted COVID-19 ended up dying. Does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying from COVID-19? That 1% is what...
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Chetty’s Other-Father Mobility Finding: Prove It
There is a popular new essay by Christine Emba on men’s tortured masculinity, titled “Men are lost.” It paces the perimeter of race questions in interesting (not in a good way) ways, like this: The...
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If Women Do Better Without Men, Why Should I Date Them?
Hey Doc, I’ve been doing some soul-searching lately about my self-worth and what I can bring to a relationship, and I’m hoping your perspective on a dilemma I’ve caught myself in could help me with...
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Learning #43,578,111 (approximately)
People live by the words uttered, heard, or read in any given moment. I like guided meditation videos, for instance. The words said in those videos are important to me. I take them in. I let them...
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The Silly Season of Brad Wilcox’s New Book About Getting Married Is Upon Us
Brad Wilcox has a new book coming out, titled Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization. Although technically due for release in February, his...
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Back to the Normal! All of Us Need an Average Standard of Living Society-Wise
Photo: TDHawkes Old Archives — I’m 67 this September. So what? The 1980s happened here in the central USA; where I lived. I watched MTV happen. Yes, it began in 1981. I was 25. It was fun. My life was...
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10 Surprising Divorce Statistics in 2023
A dose of bad internet advice that I heard this week — “Having a successful marriage is as likely as winning the lottery.” This isn’t remotely true, but it did get me thinking. Is a successful...
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We’ve Gone Too Far
I see you out there, strangers, sisters, and brothers. We have never known each other. I don’t know who any of you are and vice versa. It is the task of the internet to resolve that conundrum among...
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The Unavoidability of Faith With Rick Rosner
According to some semi-reputable sources gathered in a listing here, Rick G. Rosner may have among America’s, North America’s, and the world’s highest measured IQs at or above 190 (S.D. 15)/196 (S.D....
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