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FiveThirtyEight and atheists in prison

March 13, 2015 2 Comments

“Atheists are underrepresented [in federal prison].” Mona Chalabi, in a March 12, 2015 article for FiveThirtyEight   Overview FiveThirtyEight uses data inadequate for the task of estimating the percentage of atheists in federal prison. FiveThirtyEight’s argument won’t even support a probabilistic case that atheists are underrepresented in the federal prison population. The Facts FiveThirtyEight’s Mona Chalabi received a request from…
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A ‘clear majority’ favor addressing the deficit with a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts?

November 17, 2012 0 Comments

President Obama: “By the way, more voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me. So we’ve got a clear majority of the American people who recognize if we’re going to be serious about deficit reduction, we’ve got to do it in a balanced way.”   Overview President Obama made his remark about voters agreeing with him during…
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