A Lesson in Data and Analysis for the New York Times
Washington, D.C.-- The New York Times published a front-page article, “Scant Drop in Abortion Rates if Parents are Told,” that reported the newspaper’s conclusion that recently-enacted parental involvement laws have not reduced the incidence of abortion among teens.1 On its surface, the newspaper’s statistical analysis appears convincing, but a closer look at its data and methodology call its conclusions into question.
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Date: 3/7/2006
Explosive Rage Not as Rare as Once Thought
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One in 20 Americans may be susceptible to uncontrollable anger attacks. Intermittent explosive disorder is different from the common type of anger most people exhibit from time to time when they pout, throw a book down or walk out of a room, activities that are better described as mild temper tantrums. IED is defined as repeated and uncontrollable anger attacks that often become violent.
Eight out of 10 people with IED subsequently develop other mental disorders, they found. The study found that the rage disorder typically begins at age 13 in boys and 19 in girls, increases rapidly in the teen years, is less prevalent among respondents in their 40s and becomes even less so among people in their 60s.Links
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Date: 3/6/2006
Lives of Quiet Turbulence
Elizabeth Marquardt on what happens in the souls of children of divorce.
For her master's thesis in divinity school, Elizabeth Marquardt wrote a paper called "The Moral and Spiritual Experiences of Children of Divorce." At the time, she found almost no data on the topic. "No one had looked," she says, "at how divorce in childhood shapes how children approach the biggest questions of all: Who am I? Where do I belong? What is right and wrong? What is true? Is there a God?"
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Date: 3/1/2006
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