Nation Oct 05 The number of civilians killed by the police has been greatly undercounted in official stats for decades By Moshen Naghavi, Eve Wool, Fablina Sharara, The Conversation
Science May 20 Watch 8:23 What computer-based models can tell us about coronavirus — and what they can’t For months, scientists and public officials have relied upon computer-based models to try to predict the trajectory or the coronavirus outbreak. But models are not crystal balls, and all of them involve human assumptions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on… By Miles O'Brien
Science Jul 17 Analysis: Why the 2020 census doesn’t need a citizenship question to count the undocumented Counting 11 million undocumented immigrants is easier than you might think. By Jennifer Van Hook, The Conversation
Science Mar 20 Which came first: society or a fear of god? Religion is a fundamental feature of humanity, but did our ancestors need it to form complex societies?… By Nsikan Akpan
Science Aug 21 Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds Police militarization neither reduces rates of violent crime nor changes the number of officers assaulted or killed, a new study finds. It is arguably the nation’s first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized police forces. By Nsikan Akpan
Jun 22 To beat Vegas bookies at the World Cup, these statisticians turned to artificial intelligence By Amanda Grennell After cleaning up at the 2014 World Cup, statistician Andreas Groll is enlisting machine learning to keep his lucky streak going… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 3:15 My daughter escaped being a scary health statistic. Here’s what I learned. By PBS NewsHour When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The… Continue watching
May 02 Life in Freddie Gray’s childhood neighborhood by the numbers By Elisabeth Ponsot, Daniel Costa-Roberts On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12. Continue reading
Jan 24 A separated economist gets discriminated against — online By Paul Oyer Paul Oyer is an Ivy League-educated economist, but everything he ever needed to learn about economics he learned from online dating. In this adaptation from his new book, he explains how, as a separated man re-entering the dating scene, he… Continue reading
May 14 Watch Unemployment: Addressing a Worsening ‘Human Disaster’ in U.S. Unemployment: Addressing a Worsening 'Human Disaster' in U.S. Continue watching