What You Think You Know About The Polls Isn’t Necessarily True

Once again, it seems necessary to debunk some commonly believed myths about polling.

The Beginning Of The End Of Polling?

The response rates for opinion polling of all types has become incredibly low.

US Trade Deficit Hits 18-Month Low

The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.

Romney Bans Press From Private Fundraiser; Press Upset

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

DC’s Taxi System Hikes Fees, Frustrations

The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.

Hey, Is Anyone Out There?

If there’s anyone out there, why haven’t we heard from them yet?

The Problem of Generalizing from Specific Cases (Cell Phones and Driving Edition)

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Set Up?

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

Apple’s Odd New Patent And What It Says About Our Patent Laws

A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.

California Allows Police To Search Mobile Phones Without A Warrant

California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.

Supreme Court To Rule On Warrentless GPS Tracking

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

Utopia Is A Relative Concept

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

A Decade of Lost Freedom

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

No Cell Phones in The Classroom

No Cell Phones In Class!! Breaks it…

Are We Overprotecting Our Kids?

How did we survive without all the molly-codding kids today get?

Idiotic Idea of the Day

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants to install devices in cars to disable cell phones.

Rasmussen Bias Redux

Rasmussen’s sample is biased because they’re polling on the cheap — using robocalls, which by law can’t dial cell phones, and otherwise cutting corners — rather than because of some agenda to propagandize for the GOP. The end result, however, is the same: Polls that can’t be trusted.

Rasmussen Poll Overestimated Republican Vote

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

Cell Phones and Election Polls

The growing number of cell-phone-only households gives Democrats hope that the polls are undercounting them.

The Dumbest Generation: Does Technology Make Kids Dumb?

Has modern life robbed America’s youth of their ability to think? Or simply caused them to think in different ways about different things?

Driving-While-Texting Bans Don’t Work

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

Obama: Big Brother

Cell Phone College Classes