Dropping out dropouts is a mischievous act
The following throw-away lines in a Wall Street Journal article about the
Cause-effect
The inevitable perversion of measurement
Supposedly one of the tactics in the fight against obesity is to
Popularizing tiny effects
I found my way to Mark Liberman's post at Language
Three complaints about medical journalism
It's very frustrating to read journalism about health and medicine.
Structural unemployment in black and white
A popular argument is circulating out there. You may have heard this
Why should we care about these studies?
Reader Joe M. points us to this article from Slate (via Kottke)