A mid-December poll from The Economist / YouGov highlights how differently Clinton and Trump voters view the world. As with any poll one can raise questions about methodology and how accurately the sample of people surveyed reflect voters. But we’re … Continue reading
In 2001 investigative reporters working for The Boston Globe uncovered evidence that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston was moving priests around to conceal rather than adequately address their sexual abuse of minors, a problem the reporters themselves had trouble believing … Continue reading
Last month (link) I mentioned the problem of misinformation voters as distinct from low-information voters. Low-information voters just don’t pay a lot of attention to politics, which I admit is completely understandable if a problem for a democracy. But by … Continue reading
As I mentioned a few weeks ago (link), overall U.S. life expectancy fell slightly in 2015. We should be careful about reading too much into a small one-year decline (it also fell in 1980 and 1993), but we shouldn’t ignore … Continue reading
Last week I read an interesting blog post from Kevin Drum based on two sets of U.S. crime data collected two different ways by separate parts of the Justice Department. Data derived both from large-scale population surveys and from police … Continue reading
An article on the Vox website (link) argues that in many ways the world is getting better, vastly so in comparison with 200 years ago. For example: In 1820 about 90 percent of the world population lived in what we … Continue reading