Cheese Consumption and Number of People Who Died Tangled in BedSheets, And Other Examples of Spurious Correlations

Cheese Consumption and Number of People Who Died Tangled in BedSheets, And Other Examples of Spurious Correlations

Looking for examples of spurious correlations to illustrate for your students the dangers of confusing correlation and causation?   Tyler Vi...

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Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps Highest In 30 Years

Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps Highest In 30 Years

A recent Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances  shows that the Great Recession has wi...

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Parable of the Polygons: Interactive Exercise To Teach/Learn About Bias and Racial Segregation

Parable of the Polygons: Interactive Exercise To Teach/Learn About Bias and Racial Segregation

Vi Hart and Nicky Case have created an interactive based on Nobel-Prize winning game theorist Thomas Schelling’s 1971 model of racial segreg...

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Americans Have Grown Increasingly Supportive of Torture

Americans Have Grown Increasingly Supportive of Torture

A number of polls have shown that an increasing share of the American public views torture as justifiable.  According to the Pew Research Ce...

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Interactive Mapping Tool Shows How Young Adults Today Compare With Previous Generations

Interactive Mapping Tool Shows How Young Adults Today Compare With Previous Generations

Census Explorer, the Census Bureau's interactive mapping tool, has released “Young Adults: Then and Now.”   The tool uses data from the...

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Country Deeply Divided Over Ferguson Grand Jury Decision

Country Deeply Divided Over Ferguson Grand Jury Decision

A new  ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that views of the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, MO, case are strongly divided along racia...

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New Study Finds No Support For The "Mean Girls" Argument

New Study Finds No Support For The "Mean Girls" Argument

The belief that relational (indirect) aggression is a predominantly female behavior has been popularized by some research studies and the me...

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