“It is increasingly difficult to get truly random samples, mainly because people are reluctant to respond to polls,” says a Duke professor of statistical science. “At the same time, big data from social media and online surveying offer potentially huge sample sizes, but with a significant risk that the resulting data are not representative of the whole population.”
Education is more than job training, says English professor Priscilla Wald, who directs the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke. It's essential to forming citizens of a democracy, and, she adds in this podcast, the humanities are a critical part of that training.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) gives families and survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks an avenue to pursue justice in American courts against Saudi Arabia, for what they believe is its connection to the terrorist attack. “Potentially any nation could be sued,” says law professor Curtis Bradley.
Polling Reliability
Don’t over-rely on polling this election season
“It is increasingly difficult to get truly random samples, mainly because people are reluctant to respond to polls,” says a Duke professor of statistical science. “At the same time, big data from social media and online surveying offer potentially huge sample sizes, but with a significant risk that the resulting data are not representative of the whole population.”
Jerry Reiter in The Chronicle
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The targeted killing of American citizens
Jefferson Powell in the Oxford University Press blog
Glad You Asked
Attacks on education hurt democracy
Education is more than job training, says English professor Priscilla Wald, who directs the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke. It's essential to forming citizens of a democracy, and, she adds in this podcast, the humanities are a critical part of that training.
Priscilla Wald in the Glad You Asked podcast
Foreign Exchange
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Political Fact-checking
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Clean Power Plan
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Tim Profeta in Bloomberg
911 Lawsuits
Law allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia could harm global anti-terrorism efforts
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) gives families and survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks an avenue to pursue justice in American courts against Saudi Arabia, for what they believe is its connection to the terrorist attack. “Potentially any nation could be sued,” says law professor Curtis Bradley.
Curtis Bradley on ABC News
Glad You Asked
Slice Education, Hurt Democracy
Presidential Debates
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