Archive for Journalism
A schadenfreude of White-House-in-disarray articles
News distortion example: AI, competition, and cooperation
An example of how news gets distorted: DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), published an interesting and...
Misleading graphs
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
I recently happened across a bit of a great This American Life episode while driving, and later downloaded it and...
What site am I on?
I often find myself reading a web page with no conscious idea of what site it's on or who the...
In praise of anonymity
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity.
Rainfall + cable TV = autism?
A trio of economists at Cornell and Indiana University-Purdue have done an as-yet-unpublished study that makes the following claims: As...