At 8:23 PM -0500 9/8/98, Michael A. Stone wrote:
>> I just *love* the way reporters report "research" - none of this (no
>> controls, not random selection) showed up in any stories I saw.
>
>
>there's a book called (i think) _A Mathemetician Reads the Newspaper_ which
>drives a rather large, rather blunt spike through the numbers you normally
>see in the media.
right title -- he has other books as well -- and a web site -- he's a prof
at Temple (I think- - one of the PHilly colleges anyway).
Kathy
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