Category Archives: News

My aha! moment about Gosnell media coverage

Posted on 13 April 2013 by

I must have a case of learned helplessness: with so much media silence about real threats to women’s reproductive health, I no longer noticed the silence, nor expected that it could be changed. Continue reading →

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Why report the numbers?

Posted on 10 October 2012 by

  I’m teaching my statistics students about “the margin of error” – always great to do in a presidential election year. The papers are full of examples. Some give the margin of error to one or two decimal places and … Continue reading →

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The Republican Presidental Race

Posted on 20 March 2012 by

Every one of the Republican candidates seems to have insurmountable questions. Is there a contender in the bunch? Continue reading →

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