Dear Lacemakers, and Toni, thank you for posting this fascinating article. > http://slate.msn.com/id/2086617/ > > Faith-Based Fudging > How a Bush-promoted Christian prison program fakes success by massaging data. > By Mark A.R. Kleiman > > (snip) > excerpt : > So, how did the Penn study get perverted into evidence that InnerChange > worked? Through one of the oldest tricks in the book, (snip)
I've never really understood how statistics are used - let alone misused - but this piece makes it really clear what is going on. In future, I hope I'll be able to spot when I'm being misled in this way. Best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it's a beautiful Summer's morning, and I'm very pleased with myself after understanding that item). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
