Book Review: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard...
The Drunkard's Walk is a fascinating book, but it is so maddening at times that I wished I had the author, Leonard Mlodinow, on the phone to elaborate on his conclusions and convince me that what he...
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Americans Increasingly Worried About How to Pay for Health Care
Health care costs and the potential loss of health care coverage are weighing heavily on the minds of many Americans. Politicians, well aware of the problem, continue to debate the issue but cannot...
View ArticleAre We Really as Allergic as We Think?
We all know people who are allergic to something, whether it's the hay fever sufferer who sneezes every summer, or someone who has to omit some foodstuff from their diet because it doesn't agree with...
View ArticleScaring People with Big Numbers
One of the rhetorical techniques much favored by intellectually bankrupt political hacks is the deliberate effort to scare people about an issue by throwing out big numbers which seem scary to the...
View ArticleReal, Uglier American Unemployment
Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of America’s Great Recession is shown by an official...
View ArticleBook Review: Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites … and Other Lies You’ve...
“Many of the statistics currently bandied about regarding the Christian faith in the United States are incomplete, inaccurate and otherwise prone to emphasize the negative,“ says sociologist Bradley R....
View ArticleThe Drunkard’s Walk in a Random World
I’ve never drunken alcohol in my life, but I’m drunk all the time. That, at least, is the conclusion I draw after reading The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. The book argues that we...
View ArticleBook Review: The Real State of America Atlas by Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager
The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths of The United States is an atlas of statistical data pertaining to the USA and how they rate with the rest against the world. This 128-page book...
View ArticleIs There a Culture of Rape Within the Military?
There’s a heated argument in the comments section of this article about whether there is a “culture of rape” within the military. As with most arguments, the answer is both yes and no, and both sides...
View ArticleBook Review: Predictive Analytics by Eric Siegel
The timing of the recent U.S. Presidential election brought a lot of attention to data analysis and the ability of statisticians to predict outcomes. Expect to hear a lot more about the power of...
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Book Review: ‘Upside: Profiting From the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead,’...
There’s enormous power to be had in counting people, as recent events such as the election have shown. But demographics drive far more than politics. Population shifts, from fertility rates to...
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