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It seemed like just a few years ago that China was worried about having too many babies and now they are getting desperate for families to have more children! This was a relatively straightforward article, China Told Women to Have Babies, but the Population Shrank Again, for my students, so a good one to use … Continue reading
I realize now that this title could mean different things after I have typed it in. Here we are talking about the enormous advantage students from wealthy households have in getting into the top colleges and universities. The article, Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges, “shows the chances that similarly qualified students — those … Continue reading
“Without a doubt, this is the most important thing that has happened to the federal budget in the last 20 years,” is a provocative statement and one I thought my students would be interested in reading about, especially when it is surrounded by mystery in the article: A Huge Threat to the Budget has Receded … Continue reading
The dot plots in the featured image say it all. Assuming as always you can correctly read these charts, which come from the article, Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why. Many of my students assume the dots represent different hospitals in a given region and the prices they charge … Continue reading
I realize my posts have been sparse and in order to rectify that wrong, I promise to post the nine articles and associated take-home quizzes from my class this fall; not including the first one, Innumeracy, which I start with each semester. These quizzes roughly line up with my coverage of Chapters 2-10 in my … Continue reading
In the article, America Will Struggle After the Coronavirus: These Charts Show Why, David Leonhardt and Yaryna Serkez, explore the rise in income/wealth inequality in America and how the pandemic has impacted households unequally. This article was written last April, so we should publish this post before COVID becomes a distant memory. The charts they … Continue reading
The website, https://www.3billionbirds.org/findings, summarizes findings from a research article, Decline of North American Avifauna, from Science Magazine No. 366 (2019). The website contains nice graphics showing change over time that make for perfect QR questions! This image is giving both the total change and percent change of aerial insectivores from 1970 to 2019. You can … Continue reading
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a well-known conservative think tank. Their past president, Arthur Brooks, was going to visit my class in April of 2020, and so I wanted my students to read something from AEI to prep them for our discussion with him. He was named a visiting fellow to Bowdoin for the … Continue reading
This article, How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get?, was assigned in week 3 giving us a perfect opportunity to apply our quantitative reasoning skills to make sense of the risk of this virus. In addition, Joel Best in Damned Lies and Statistics discusses how organizational practices shape the statistics we encounter. Again the virus … Continue reading
I am going to do my best to post the articles and quizzes I am using this semester in order so faculty can get an idea for what this looks like over the course of a semester. Using the articles with your QR class is one of the best ways to connect the content to … Continue reading
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