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  • Three Common Ways Governments Misuse Statistics and What You Can Do About It

    Three Common Ways Governments Misuse Statistics and What You Can Do About It0

    Government agencies and researchers produce endless reams of statistics. While statistics can be valuable, they can be easily misrepresented. A 2017 study on the use of statistics in news characterized the problem as such: “The constant supply of data produced by think tanks, government agencies, independent researchers, academics and others is a significant and a

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  • Three Classic Reads That Are Still Relevant Today

    Three Classic Reads That Are Still Relevant Today0

    Summer is the best time to catch up on the reading that, for one reason or another, you haven’t had time to do the rest of the year. But instead of reading the average beach paperback, why not dig deeper and check out some classics from the past? Here are three that I believe to

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  • Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it

    Three Cheers for the Industrial Revolution–and the Fossil Fuels that Drove it0

    In an article for CapX last week, I discussed Johan Norberg’s new book, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. As Norberg notes, over the last two centuries, humanity has made massive improvements in terms of nutrition, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, literacy, environmental quality, political freedom and child labor. Today, I want to discuss the role that

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  • Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US

    Three Charts Showing How Childbearing Varies Across the US0

    Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines. These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average number of children that women have, nationally. However, this one number masks large and interesting variation in people’s childbearing behavior. The National Survey of Family Growth – one of the best sources of information on this

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  • Three Bits of Advice for a Trump News Network

    Three Bits of Advice for a Trump News Network0

    Following Donald Trump’s concession of the 2020 presidential race, what the president does next after leaving the White House will quickly become a topic of interest. If Trump’s fallout with Fox News is actually as stark as reported, he may indeed soon start his own cable news channel to rival Fox’s empire. Speculation remains as

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  • Three Athletes Take a Stand Instead of a Knee

    Three Athletes Take a Stand Instead of a Knee0

    With the Black Lives Matter movement quickly becoming the cause du jour after George Floyd’s death, the case of athletes kneeling during America’s national anthem went from being a high-profile, but rather uncommon action (which the National Football League banned in 2018 before an about face this year) to being so common among millionaire athletes as to be practically meaningless.

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