Guns, Crime, and Statistics: It's Complicated

Guns, Crime, and Statistics: It's Complicated

Despite being deeply contested in academic circles, a paper published in 1997 by John Lott and David Mustard, " Crime, Deterrence, and ...

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Record One In 30 U.S. Children Is Homeless, According to Latest Report

Record One In 30 U.S. Children Is Homeless, According to Latest Report

A report just issued by the National Center on Family Homelessness , "America's Youngest Outcasts," presents the latest figure...

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Online Dating Aggression Linked to Neighborhood Violence Exposure

Online Dating Aggression Linked to Neighborhood Violence Exposure

A University of Michigan research team led by Quyen Epstein-Ngo, a research assistant professor at the U-M Institute for Research on Women a...

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Could President Obama's Current Approval Ratings Inform The 2076 Election?

Could President Obama's Current Approval Ratings Inform The 2076 Election?

The New York Times' The Upshot recently reported on a new model of presidential voting created by Andrew Gelman, a political scientist ...

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2014 Midterm Elections and The Turnout Gap

2014 Midterm Elections and The Turnout Gap

As American citizens line up to vote today, the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post offer two windows on the midterm elections. Th...

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New Interactive Tools from The Economist

New Interactive Tools from The Economist

The Economist has released new interactive economic indicators that allow users to customize and share their own tables to tell their own s...

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