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TheMercenary · 08-01-2010, 02:28 PM

I was listening to NPR this weekend and they did a great segment on the use of numbers in news reports. The issue of illegal aliens was mentioned as an example. The point was made that the number in isolation is really not a useful measurement if it is taken in isolation.

08-01-2010, 02:28 PM	#11
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I was listening to NPR this weekend and they did a great segment on the use of numbers in news reports. The issue of illegal aliens was mentioned as an example. The point was made that the number in isolation is really not a useful measurement if it is taken in isolation. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!