Via http://election.princeton.edu/todays-senate-seat-count-histogram/ As much as I’d like to be wrong about this, the GOP has about a 3/4 shot at…
Category Damned Lies and Statistics
The whole point of this post is to get you to check out this other post by Andy Baio, in…
NPR has a short piece and a new podcast up on Planet Money in which they try to answer the…
I know that this puts me over quota on charts for the week, but it makes an incredibly…
Inspired by Reza Aslan’s highly publicized claim that female genital mutilation is really more of a Central African problem than…
In my mind I tend to sort propositional claims into a few major bins, two of which are: Things that…
Possibly the most depressingly subtitled report I’ve ever yet seen from the Pew Research Center came out yesterday: I really…
If you’ve been following American skepticism at all lately, you’ll be aware of the endless speculation about what is going…
The Atheism Plus 2nd Anniversary Celebratory Donation drive has recently concluded and I’m happy to report that I made a…
Philip Bump over at WaPo has put together a stunning graphical illustration of how the U.S. has become increasingly politically…