Report: Three of every two government statistics are flawed
Okay, I’m joking. The real headline from the Guardian newspaper is One in five Home Office statistics are unreliable, says department head. Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber makes the point that non-neutral claims of facts degrade public discourse. But I wonder whether even a putatively independent body can create trustworthy facts when they’re subject to subtle […]
Shoe blogging
By Sherman Dorn on January 17, 2007
I won’t blog about the video ipods that the dean helped distribute today for the faculty who are participating in the podcasting program for the college, except to say that I’ll figure out how to use the Belkin TuneTalk to record spontaneous material for podcasting, and I managed to get a decent acrylic cover for […]
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