STATBUSTERS
A study says that standing for a quarter of the day reduces obesity—but cause and effect are not so clear.
Basic Math
Joel Keller recently ranted about ‘inefficient’ anti-smoking ad campaigns. Here’s what he gets wrong about the bottom line.
Statbusters
Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard of drug testing—but companies can easily tweak the system in their favor.
WAR OF WORDS
Brooks’s belligerent column about Coates’s new book could just as well have been talking about his own theory of journalism.
STATBUSTERS
When it comes to which is more deadly—selfies or shark attacks—no analysis would have been better than a bad analysis.
Artificial Simulation
A claim in a recent Politico article that undecided voters can ‘easily’ be shifted by ‘20 percent or more’ seems ridiculous on its face. We dug a little deeper.
Statbusters
A study identifying four types of drinkers messes up its science.
STATBUSTERS
Debunking China’s ‘4,000 air-pollution deaths a day’ myth and other media math flubs.
STATBUSTERS
How media bias skews the facts on gun violence and police line-of-duty deaths since Ferguson.
Statbusters
Can software perform better than humans on matters of hiring and retaining employees?