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3 + C: Alcohol Consumption
Three things it tells me: 1. The vast majority of alcohol consumers have had at least one hangover. 2. Less than half of students have weekly hangovers. 3. I think that the second and third bars are...
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Activity: Climate Change Consensus Infographic
1. Make an exhaustive list of both part-whole comparisons and inter-group comparisons being made here. 2. How are the wholes defined? How are the parts? 3. This is an image, so the links are not...
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Zero-day Comparisons
Game of Thrones, Season 2 is getting illegally downloaded. A lot. In fact, it’s on track to be the most pirated show of 2012, and maybe 2011 as well: Maybe that’s interesting to you, maybe not. Here’s...
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Activity: Law Salaries
The graph above shows salaries of 2006 graduates of law school as measured in 2007. 1. The study did not include people out of work. How might the graph shape change if it included people out of work?...
View ArticleQuestion: Corporate Psychopathy
In a widely reported study, psychologists found the following: In this study, we had a unique opportunity to examine psychopathy and its correlates in a sample of 203 corporate professionals selected...
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Activity: 24 Houses Per Homeless Person
Via Truth & Justice’s Facebook Page. Find a figure (or a couple of figures) on homelessness in America. Find a figure on the number of houses in America. What percentage of houses would have to be...
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Activity: Bipartisan / Landslide Definitions
Politicians and media use the terms “bipartisan” and “landslide” all the time. But what do they mean? In this activity you will try to come up with a working, operationalized definition of these...
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Surrogate Outcomes
In medicine, researchers often rely on surrogate outcomes (also called surrogate endpoints). Take, for example, something like heart health. We know that a good ratio of good cholesterol to bad...
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Lifecycle Analysis: CFL vs. Incandescent Mercury Pollution
From EnergyStar.gov: Lifecycle impact analyses, like the one shown above, are invaluable tools in making fair comparisons. It’s easy, for example, to get hung up on the small amount of mercury in a...
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Defining Terms: What exactly is being counted? And how was the data collected?
So what do we mean when we say something like “Asthma has risen?” The naive answer is that “More people have asthma.” But what exactly are we counting? What has gone up? We can measure asthma in a...
View ArticleActivity: Reconcile These Student Loan Rates
From the NY Times: Ninety-four percent of students who earn a bachelor’s degree borrow to pay for higher education — up from 45 percent in 1993, according to an analysis by The New York Times of the...
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