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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college. βHere we go againβ he thought. Only the week before he had...
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college. βHere we go againβ he thought. Only the week before he had written his second article on why this statistic is not true. This week Ruth Alexander looks at where this βfactβ came from and why it is still being used.
Also, why the opinion polls got the Kenyan elections wrong.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?