Readings From Podcast - thoughts on society and data collection uses

• Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS

  Interview with David Simons - The Wire HBO series discusses issues of society and data

  tags: bill_moyers

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    • school testing is Juking the stats - post by rocketrob
  • Juking the stats
    • making the data say what you want it to say - post by rocketrob
  • DAVID SIMON: You show me anything that depicts institutional progress in America, school test scores, crime stats, arrest reports, arrest stats, anything that a politician can run on, anything that somebody can get a promotion on. And as soon as you invent that statistical category, 50 people in that institution will be at work trying to figure out a way to make it look as if progress is actually occurring
  • Anything that is a stat can be cheated
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    • Chess game to explain society - post by rocketrob

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